Fire service says two Kano women drowned in pond
The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed that two women lost their lives in a pond in Gezawa LGA.
The fire service spokesman, Saminu Abdullahi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
“We received a distress call on Tuesday morning at about 11:15 a.m. from a vigilance group at Gezawa that (the) women had drowned in a pond.
“The relatives of the victims informed the vigilance group that the women worked at a zobo processing company.
“They said that the women had gone to the pond after closing from work and drowned. We quickly sent our rescue team to the scene and recovered the corpses from the pond,” he said.
He said the corpses were handed over to Musa Garba, a police constable at the Gezawa police division.
Mr Abdullahi advised the public to avoid entering open waters and rivers to prevent unfortunate incidents.
(NAN)
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