JUST IN: FATHER, TWO-YEAR-OLD SON DIE IN JIGAWA BUILDING COLLAPSE
The death of a 30-year-old man alongside his two-year-old son in a building collapse in Madabe village has been confirmed by officials of Buji Local Government Area of Jigawa State, on Monday.
Confirming the tragedy to newsmen in Dutse on Monday, the council’s Information Officer, Ali Safiyanu, said the 25-year-old mother of the boy survived the tragic incident.
According to Safiyanu, the mother is responding to treatment at an undisclosed hospital, explaining that a downpour on Sunday night led to the collapse of the building.
The spokesman for the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in the state, Badaruddeen Tijjani, also confirmed the incident but could not immediately give the names of the deceased and the survivor.
Tijjani said an investigation had since commenced into the incident.
Recall that floods wreaked havoc between Thursday and Sunday in some villages in the area, displacing about 400 households and destroying about 1,000 buildings.
Meanwhile, the State Management Emergency Management Agency has distributed relief items to the displaced persons camped in one of the schools in the area.
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