Two-year-old girl has died after falling into a deep well in Saki, Oyo State.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reported that a team of fire service personnel who carried out the recovery operation had commenced investigation of the incident.
The Chairman of Oyo State Fire Services Agency and Special Adviser to the Governor on Fire Services Reform, Dr Moroof Akinwande confirmed the incident in a statement made available to newsmen Wednesday in Ibadan.
Akinwande said Saki Zonal Command of the agency received a distress call about the incident on Tuesday at exactly 1:43pm through one Mr Adewole.
He said the deceased fell into a deep well located at Orita Mokola Junction, Seedu Sabarumu, Sango area of the town.
“The agency’s officers, led by Saka, quickly left to the scene of the incident and on arrival, we were informed that a two-year old girl was inside the well for long.
“We swiftly engaged our rescue equipment and CFM Adediran Jacob entered the well for search and rescue operations,” he said.
The chairman said the girl was recovered dead and handed over to a team of policemen, led by CSP Odunbanjo Kehinde, for further necessary action.
While stating that the cause of the incident was unknown, he said the fire service’s Post Incident Investigation Team, PIIT, is carrying out the necessary investigation to ascertain the cause of the incident.
He urged the public to always observe safety measures in protecting their wells and septic pits from free accessibility so as to avoid being a death trap.
Meanwhile, the agency said it had also recovered two dead bodies from a truck accident which occurred at Ajegede Ode- Aje area of Ibadan on Tuesday.
Akinwande attributed the cause of the accident to brake failure.
He said fire personnel, led by ACFS Olubunmi, on arrival at the scene of the incident, met a truck loaded with frozen fish which lost control and somersaulted into a nearby river.
The chairman said the two dead males are the truck driver and his motor boy. They were handed over to a team of policemen from Agugu Division. (NAN)
