Building collapse kills father, son in Jigawa

The Buji Local Government Council of Jigawa has confirmed the decease of a 30-year-old antheral and his two-year-old lad successful a gathering illness that occurred successful Madabe village.

The council’s Information Officer, Alhaji Ali Safiyanu, who confirmed the accusation to newsmen successful Dutse connected Monday, said the 25-year-old parent of the lad survived the incident.

Safiyanu said that the surviving parent is responding to attraction astatine an undisclosed hospital.

He explained that the incidental which led to the illness of the gathering occurred connected Sunday nighttime during a dense downpour.

Also speaking, Badaruddeen Tijjani, the spokesperson of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, successful the state, confirmed the incidental but could not instantly springiness the names of the deceased and the survivor.

Tijjani said probe had since commenced into the incident.

Recall that flood wreaked havoc betwixt Thursday and Sunday successful immoderate villages successful the area, displacing astir 400 households and destroying astir 1,000 farms.

The State Management Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, had already distributed alleviation items to the displaced persons camped successful 1 of the schools successful the area.

Building illness kills father, lad successful Jigawa