Flood Sweeps Four-Year-Old Boy Away In Lagos

Flood Sweeps Four-Year-Old Boy Away In Lagos

Parents of a four-year-old boy, Chukwuemeka Okoro, and their neighbours are currently troubled over their inability to retrieve the boy’s body almost one week after he was washed away by a flood in a Lagos community.

Punch Metro gathered that the incident happened last week Tuesday when Okoro fell into a canal at Nobel Street and washed away through a nearby drainage in the Onibata community, both in the Ogba area of Lagos.

The tragedy was said to have occurred during a downpour witnessed in the area on Tuesday.

Okoro, who was said to be standing at the edge of a drainage at Nobel Street in Ogba reportedly slipped and fell inside the drainage as the flood washed him into a canal that led to the Onibata community.

Punch correspondent who visited the scene on Friday saw no few than 20 volunteer members of the family and residents, combing the area in a frantic search for Okoro’s body.

As of the time of filing this report, efforts to retrieve his body had yet to yield any results.

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