One Mu’azu Garba in Kano State
has reportedly died while trying to rescue his mobile phone from a soakaway
(septic tank).
The incident happened on
Thursday at Jigirya, in the Nassarawa local government area of the state.
The sad development was
disclosed in a statement by the spokesman for Kano State Fire Service, Saminu
Abdullahi.
Narrating the event in the
state, Abdullahi said the agency received a distressed call on Thursday at
about 1:35 pm from one Abbas Abubakar, that a man had been trapped inside a
soakaway.
He said the 40-year-old man
was making attempts to bring out his mobile phone that fell inside
the soakaway but could not come out of the pit.
“We immediately sent our
rescue team to the scene at about 1:45 p.m,” Abdullahi said.
He, however, said the victim
was brought out of the septic tank already dead, and his corpse was handed over
to the ward head of Jigirya, Nuhu Adamu.
Garba was using his mobile
phone in the toilet when it fell inside and he went down to get it from the
sewer.
