The Kano state Fire Service has confirmed the death of five out of six people trapped under a heap of sand at Ramin Farar Kasa in Dauni village in Minjibir local government area of the state.
The Service’s public relations officer, Alhaji Saidu Muhammed, said this in a statement on Friday in Kano.
The statement read in part, “We received a distress call on Thursday afternoon from Dauni village through one Malam Danlami Murtala at about 02:45pm that a heap of sand has covered six people who were digging for sand used for make-up powder. Upon receiving the information, we quickly dispatched firemen and fire engine to the scene, tried to rescue the victim where only a little boy of about four years was found alive.”
It gave the names of the victims as Ibrahim Shu’aibu, four, Dije Shu’aibu, eight, Hadiza Shu’aibu, 12, Nana Idris, 12, Wasila Nuhu, 13, Sa’ida Lawwali, 32.
The statement further indicated that the bodies of the victims were handed over to the village head of Dauni, Alhaji Bello Rabi’u, and that the only survivour had a minor fracture.
