Three boys tragically lost their lives On Thursday after falling into a pit pond located behind the General Hospital in Monguno, Borno State.
Sources according to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert, identified the victims as Mallam Gana Mohammed, Modu Audu Saleh, and Abba Ngumami, all residents of the Water Board IDP Camp in Monguno.
The father of one of the victims, Muhammed Aisami, reported that the boys had gone swimming at about 7:40 a.m. when the incident occurred.
Emergency workers and police operatives were drafted to the scene where sympathisers and the officers recovered the bodies of the victims.
Medical personnel at the General Hospital Monguno confirmed all three dead, noting no signs of violence.
The remains of the deceased boys have been handed over to their families for burial in line with Islamic rites.
