Tragedy strikes as two women drown in Kano pond

The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed the tragic death of two women who drowned in a pond located in the Gezawa Local Government Area of the state. 

This unfortunate event was reported by the Public Relations Officer of the Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, in a statement issued on Wednesday.

”We received a distress call on Tuesday morning at about 11:15a.m. from a vigilance group at Gezawa that two women had drowned in a pond.

“The relatives of the victims informed the vigilance group that the women worked at a ”Zobo” (Hibiscus) processing company.

“They said that the women had gone to the pond to get themselves up 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 that the corpses were handed over to Musa Garba, a police constable at the Gezawa police division.

The PRO advised the general public to desist from going near open waters and rivers to prevent unfortunate incidents.