2 Teenage Boys Drown In Kano River

The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed the decease of 2 teenage boys who drowned portion swimming successful a watercourse astatine Hayin Yawa Gada, Tudun Wada section authorities country of the state.

Public Relations Officer of the Service, ACFO Saminu Yusif Abdullahi, successful a statement, revealed that the incidental occurred connected Thursday, October 9, 2025, astir 2p.m.

According to the Abdullahi, the Tudun Wada Fire Station’s Emergency Response Unit received a distress telephone from a Hisbah official, who reported that 2 boys identified arsenic Habu Sani and Haruna Isah, some astir 15 years aged had drowned successful a watercourse that runs beneath a large span successful the area.

“Upon arrival, our men recovered that the 2 victims had entered the waterway for section swimming and got drowned. They were rescued unconscious but were aboriginal confirmed dead,” the Abdullahi said.

The bodies were subsequently handed implicit to Inspector Usaini Iliya of the Tudun Wada Police Division for further investigation.

In a abstracted development, the Fire Service besides recovered the assemblage of an unidentified idiosyncratic from a good astatine Jaba Masaka Shago Tara successful Kano metropolis.

The connection explained that the incidental was reported by the P&G Kwalli Police Division astir 8:15 a.m. connected Friday, October 10, 2025.

“Our men from the authorities office were mobilised to the country and successfully removed the assemblage from the well. According to eyewitnesses, the assemblage had been successful the good for astir 4 days earlier it was discovered,” Abdullahi said.

He added that the remains of the deceased were handed implicit to the Ward Head of the area, Ado Idris, for due handling.

While expressing interest implicit the recurring incidents of drowning, the Director of the Fire Service, Sani Anas, appealed to parents and assemblage leaders to show their children intimately and forestall them from going adjacent streams, puddles and different h2o bodies, particularly during the rainy season.