Heartbreak in Kano as father, teenage daughter perish in open well

By Bosede Olufunmi

An old dry well accident has claimed the lives of Abubakar Abdullahi, 45, and his 15-year-old daughter, Fiddausi Abubakar, the Kano State Fire Service confirmed.

‎This is contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the service, Saminu Abdullahi on Wednesday in Kano.

‎Abdullahi said the incident occurred on Tuesday evening in Yancibi village in Tsanyawa Local Government Area of the State.

‎”We received a distress call from an unknown caller at our fire service station that a father and his daughter had fallen into an old dry well in Yancibi Village. We immediately deployed our firefighters from the Tsanyawa branch to rescue the victims,” he said.

According to him, due to darkness and challenging conditions at the scene, the rescue operation could not complete the rescue.

‎”Our emergency rescue team was also deployed from the Kano State Fire Service Headquarters to support the operation. Upon arrival, the team successfully brought out both victims from the well unconscious and were later confirmed dead”, he added.

Abdullahi said preliminary information indicates that the girl accidentally fell inside the old dry well while the father attempted to rescue her, both of them were unable to come out due to lack of oxygen.

He further explained that the corpses of the victims were handed over to the Village Head of Yancibi, Shamsu Sani.

‎The State Fire Service extended its heartfelt condolences to the family of the deceased and urged general public to avoid entering wells without proper rescue equipment.

NAN