Fatal Swimming: Body Of One Of Four Drowned Students Recovered In Lagos

PM News reports that the dead body of a student has been recovered from a Lagos beach.

The body was one of the four students who drowned at Elegushi Beach, in Lekki area of Lagos State on Tuesday, has been recovered.

Police spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed this on Wednesday, saying efforts were on to recover the bodies of three other students swept away by the beach,

Ten students of Kuramo Senior College, Lekki, aged between 14 and 15, were swimming at the beach to celebrate the completion of their Senior Secondary School National Examination Council of Nigeria (NECO) when four of them were swept away.

Six other students were said to have been rescued by local divers.

Chief Ayuba Elegushi, spokesperson for the Elegushi Beach Management, on Tuesday said the students were not properly registered.

According to him, the incident occurred at an unmanned section of the beach not open to the public.

“We initially sent them away from the area of the beach they wanted to swim in. Then, they went to another place that was not for the public at all. It was the child of our kinsman, Abass, who took them from school to the beach and those kids followed him.

“They did not pay any gate fee to access the beach. Abass used the leverage that he was one of us to take them through another place,” he said in the statement obtained by The Punch.