The bodies of four children – Jinkai Hakila, 10, Bridget Ibrahim, 11, Precious Ezra, 14 and Azumi Daniel, 16, were on Saturday fished out of Danko River in Galadimawa Community, a Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja suburb.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that the victims were at the river to wash clothes before they drowned at about 11 am.
Miss Blessing Elisha, 14, an eye witness who was also washing at the river said that several efforts made to stop the children from playing in the water yielded no result before the incident.
“I actually did not see them entering the water because I was busy washing, suddenly I was called that three of them had entered the river.
“It was then I looked up and saw the fourth one going in and an attempt made to rescue her looked like I was getting drowned.
“Then I left her and ran to call for help,” she said.
A fisherman who participated in the rescue attempts corroborated Miss Elisha's account of the incident.
“We came to the scene of the incident immediately we got the information, and it took some time before we discovered their corpses because our nets were already in the river for fishing.
“It was after I pulled out my net with a very big fish in it that I saw the four corpses in the same area with their stomach not swollen,” he said.
Their remains were immediately buried by the river bank in line with the tradition of the community.
NAN
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