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Quranic school student in Kano drowns in pond

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A 13-year-old student of a Qur’anic school, Yusuf Magaji, has drowned in a pond at Makugara village in Karaye Local Government Area of Kano State on Thursday.

The spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, confirmed the accident in a statement issued in Kano on Friday.

“We received an emergency call and we sent our rescue team to the scene but Yusuf was brought out of the pond unconscious.

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“Our men conveyed him to Karaye Specialist Hospital when a doctor confirmed him dead,’’ Abdullahi stated.

He said the corpse was handed over to Malam Nafi’u Na-Adama, proprietor of the Qur’anic school.

Abdullahi explained that Yusuf and some others were on their way to a neighbouring village but stopped by the pond to clean their bodies when he slipped inside and could not come out

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