Yusuf Magaji, a 13-year-old Qur’anic school student, drowned in a pond at Makugara village in Kano State’s Karaye Local Government Area on Thursday.

Saminu Abdullahi, spokesman for the Kano State Fire Service, confirmed the disaster in a statement made in Kano on Friday.

“We received an emergency call, and we sent our rescue team to the scene but Yusuf was brought out of the pond unconscious.”

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“Our men conveyed him to Karaye Specialist Hospital when a doctor confirmed him dead,’’ Abdullahi stated.

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He stated that the body was turned over to Malam Nafi’u Na-Adama, the proprietor of the Qur’anic institution.

Abdullahi explained that Yusuf and others were on their way to a neighboring village when he slipped inside and couldn’t get out.

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