A 60 year old man identified as Malam Bala and his son, Sunusi aged 35, have died on the same day in a well at Sabon Garin Bauchi, in Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State, while draining water from it.
According to a statement from the spokesperson of the Kano State Fire Service on Wednesday, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, the incident was said to have occurred in Kano state on Tuesday morning.
He said: “We received an emergency call from Wudil fire station at about 11:30 a.m from one Isma’ila Idris that two men had been trapped inside a well.
”We immediately sent our rescue team to the scene at about 11:33 a.m”, Abdullahi said.
“A father and his son were called to drain a well, they had successfully drained it, but, the son went back into the well to clear it when he was trapped and suffocated”, he added.
Abdullahi further revealed that, “His father went after him to rescue him, when he also got trapped and suffocated due to the lack of oxygen inside the well”.
He stated that the victims were however brought out of the well unconscious and later confirmed dead and their corpses were handed over to Insp Felix Gowok of Wudil model police station.
He says the cause of the incident was lack of oxygen.
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