Four teenage girls on Saturday evening, drowned in a pond at Malkaderi village, Gagarawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Gagarawa state, Northwest Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that the girls who were all from the same family, had gone swimming in the pond when the incident occurred.
Spokesman for Jigawa State Police Command, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam revealed this through a statement released on Sunday.
He said, “In a tragic and devastating incident reported to the Command on September 28, 2024, at about 1530hrs, five (5) teenagers, all female, went to swim in a pond at Malkaderi village, Gagarawa LGA, on the same date at about 1100hrs.
“But unfortunately, four (4) of them namely; Saina’u Musa 12yrs, Fiddausi Ado 11yrs, Habiba Musa 12yrs Ang and Bahijja Musa 13yrs, were found drowned and floating in the pond, while Sahura Audu 8yrs survived the incident.”
DSP Adam noted that a team of Police officers and local divers were deployed to the scene and launched a rescue operation.
The victims were all evacuated from the pond and ferried to Gagarawa Primary Health Care.
Four of them were confirmed dead by a medical doctor on call, while Sahura was resuscitated, treated, and discharged.
The corpses of the other four girls were later released to their relatives for burial.
Jigawa State Commissioner of Police, CP AT Abdullahi extended his condolences to the family and relatives of the victims and prayed for their eternal peace.
He cautioned parents and guardians to keep a close eye on their children and warned them not to swim in any body of water, especially during the rainy season.
