2 Students Drown In Ado Ekiti

The Ekiti Police Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Caleb Ikechukwu, has confirmed the death by drowning of two students.

The deceased, students of Ado Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti drowned in Ureje River on Friday.

According to him, the corpses of the students had been retrieved and deposited at a morgue.

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“We learnt the students went to the river to swim and got drowned. Their bodies have been taken to the mortuary,’’ Ikechukwu said.

He said full investigations had begun into the circumstances surrounding the incident.

NAN reports that seven students on Friday scaled the school fence and went for swimming, during which the two drowned.

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