Flood: One child missing as police rescue nine others in drowning school bus 

Police successful Anambra person rescued 7 schoolchildren and 2 adults from drowning arsenic their schoolhouse autobus got stuck successful a flood occasioned by precocious rainfall connected Tuesday. One schoolchild was nevertheless declared aft the incident.

The incidental occurred successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, erstwhile the schoolchildren and adults were caught successful the flood portion travelling on Nibo–Isiagu Road successful Awka, Anambra State.

The Anambra State Police Command spokesperson, Tochukwu Ikenga successful a property merchandise said its Safe School Operatives, moving with acrophobic members of the community, swiftly mobilised to the country aft receiving accusation astir the incidental and rescued the 9 victims to safety.

The merchandise said aft the rescue operation, 1 kid progressive successful the incidental remained unaccounted for, prompting the constabulary to activate a sustained hunt and rescue cognition successful the area.

Ikenga said cognition is being conducted successful collaboration with assemblage members and applicable stakeholders to find the missing child.

He said: “The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Command, CP Nnanna Oji Ama, has directed that the hunt cognition beryllium sustained and expanded.

“He besides appealed to residents, peculiarly those surviving oregon operating astir the affected route, to provide...