Man, son, other die while retrieving phone from latrine in Kano

A 60-year-old man identified as Malam Danjuma, popularly known as “Black”, his 35-year-old son, Ibrahim, and one 35-year-old Aminu Gaye have lost their lives while trying to recover a mobile phone from a latrine at Yar Gwanda Village in Tsanyawa Local Government Area of Kano State.

According to the Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Yusif Abdullahi, 28-year-old Abba Alasan was rescued alive.

Abdullahi said, “We received an emergency call from Tsanyawa Fire Station at about 11:00 a.m on Sunday from one Aminu Yar Gwanda that four men had been trapped inside a pit toilet. We immediately sent our rescue team to the scene at about 11:15 a.m.

“Danjuma was trying to retrieve a cellphone that fell into the pit toilet, when he got trapped. Thereafter, his son entered the pit toilet to save his father and also got trapped.