Malam Bala, 60, and his son Sunusi Bala, 35, were found drowned in a well they were draining at Sabon Garin Bauchi, in the Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State. Their deaths have been officially confirmed.
Saminu Abdullahi, the State Fire Service’s public relations officer, who verified the incident in a statement on Wednesday, August 9, claimed it happened on Tuesday morning.
The statement read;
“We received an emergency call from Wudil Fire station at about 11:30 a.m from one Isma’ila Idris that two men had been trapped inside a well. We immediately sent our rescue team to the scene at about 11:33 a.m.
“A father and his son were called to drain a well. They had successfully drained it. But, the son went back into the well to clear it when he was trapped and suffocated.
“His father went after him to rescue him when he also got trapped and suffocated due to the lack of oxygen inside the well.”
The statement added that the victims were brought out of the well unconscious and later confirmed dead.
