Father, son die in Jigawa building collapse
The Buji Local Government Council of Jigawa State has confirmed the death of a 30-year-old man and his two-year-old son in a building collapse that occurred in Madabe village.
The council’s Information Officer, Ali Safiyanu, who confirmed the information in Dutse on Monday, said the 25-year-old mother of the boy survived the incident.
Mr Safiyanu said that the surviving mother was responding to treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
He explained that the incident which led to the collapse of the building occurred on Sunday during a heavy downpour.
Also speaking, the state spokesman for the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Badaruddeen Tijjani, confirmed the incident but could not immediately give the names of the deceased and the survivor.
Mr Tijjani said investigation had since commenced into the incident.
Recall that flood wreaked havoc between Thursday and Sunday in some villages in the area, displacing about 400 households and destroying about 1,000 farms.
The state Management Emergency Management Agency had already distributed relief items to the displaced persons camped in one of the schools in the area.
(NAN)
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