Tragedy: Father, son, two others die throughout routine cleansing at Bauchi water facility

Tragedy struck on the Bauchi City Water Provide and Sewage facility at Gubi Dam on Sunday, as 4 employees misplaced their lives throughout a routine cleansing train.

Among the many deceased had been a father and his son.

Based on a workers member of the company below the Ministry of Water Assets, who spoke anonymously with DAILYPOST, two of the victims had been full-time workers, whereas the opposite two had been informal employees.

“It occurred whereas they had been cleansing the water system the place water supplying the Bauchi metropolis is handled,” the workers member defined.

“They had been inside a reservoir once they noticed some fish within the soiled water. Certainly one of them tried to catch a fish that was swimming deeper into the tank. Within the course of, he drowned. A second employee who tried to rescue him additionally drowned. The third particular person went in to save lots of the second, adopted by a fourth who additionally tried a rescue, however sadly, all 4 misplaced their lives.”

The victims, recognized as Ibrahim Musa, Shu’aibu Hamza, Jamilu Yunusa, and Abdulmalik Ibrahim Hamza, had been laid to relaxation later that very same day.

DAILY POST learnt that certainly one of them had been planning for his upcoming marriage ceremony earlier than the incident.

As of the time of submitting this report, efforts to succeed in the Commissioner for Water Assets, Nuhu Zaki, and the Basic Supervisor of the Bauchi State City Water Provide and Sewerage Company, Aminu Gital, had been unsuccessful.

Nonetheless, the commissioner was reportedly current on the burial rites on Sunday afternoon.

Spokesperson for the Bauchi State Police Command, Ahmed Wakil, mentioned he would offer additional particulars sooner or later.