Eight-year-old dies in Kano construction site accident

An eight-year-old girl, Siyama Idris, has died aft accidentally falling onto an exposed robust rod astatine a roadworthy and drainage operation tract successful the Tudun Wada country of Nassarawa Local Government Area successful Kano State.

An eyewitness, Abdulrashid Yusuf, said the tragic incidental happened connected Saturday adjacent Tudun Wada Primary School, wherever roadworthy reconstruction and drainage enlargement enactment is presently ongoing.

Yusuf told a section newspaper, Solacebase, that the miss had been sent to a adjacent store to bargain thing for iftar erstwhile the mishap occurred.
“The girl, Siyama Idris, was sent to bargain thing astatine a store for iftar,” Yusuf said.

According to him, residents usually transverse the drainage nether operation utilizing a impermanent woody plank due to the fact that determination is nary due pedestrian bridge.
“To transverse the drainage, radical usually usage a gadar katako, which is conscionable a woody plank placed crossed the drainage,” helium added.

He said the kid mislaid her equilibrium portion trying to transverse adjacent the operation country and fell onto an exposed robust rod utilized successful the drainage structure.
“The robust rod was not covered. When she fell, it penetrated her stomach,” Yusuf said.

He added that the miss died instantly astatine the country earlier she could beryllium taken to hospital.
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