- The younger sister was said to have immediately raised the alarm after she could not find her brother promptly those nearby to come to her aid
In Lagos State, one Obinna Okoro has died after drowning in a flood following a torrential downpour in the state last Sunday.
The incident happened along Liasu Road Idimu in the Alimosho Local Government Area of the State.
According to PUNCH, the incident happened while the 10-year-old deceased and his younger sister were treading on a walkway covered by water close to the Juba Alaro end of the road while returning from church.
Unfortunately, he was said to have slipped and fallen into the drainage beneath the walkway after the slab covering the drainage caved in causing the flood in it to sweep him away in the process.
The younger sister was said to have immediately raised the alarm after she could not find her brother promptly those nearby to come to her aid.
While narrating the attempts made to rescue the late Obinna, a resident, who identified himself simply as Kunle, told newsmen that other residents and passers-by immediately swung into action as some of them jumped into the drainage.
“About two rescuers entered into the drainage. One of them entered from the point where he fell and the other person entered at Juba Alaro junction from where the flood flows through into the canal in the area but unfortunately, they could not find him,” he said.
Jonathan, the distraught father of the deceased, disclosed that the remains of his late son were found on Tuesday after an intensive search for his body.
Jonathan said, “I and some residents went in search of him after the incident. We traced the drainage channel towards the canal and from there connected from one street to another. This went on till Tuesday before I later got a call that a corpse was found around the Egbe bridge area. I quickly rushed there and found out that he was the one.”
He added that the late Obinna was buried the same day.