Kaduna River
where incident occurred
Five
secondary school students have been declared missing after nine of them
accidentally fell into in a river in Kaduna state, North West Nigeria.
The incident
was said to have occurred on Wednesday afternoon.
The
Executive Secretary of Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency, Ezekiel
Baba-Karik who confirmed the incident to Channels TV, said the students, from a
private secondary school in the state capital, were on an excursion at a
waterworks facility at the Kaduna River when the incident occurred.
The victims
are reported to have slipped from an old barge and plunged into the water.
According to
Mr Baba-Karik, the four others were rescued and taken to Barau Dikko Teaching
hospital in the state capital.
Source:
ChannelsTv
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