3-Year-Old Boy Falls Into well while Playing With His Friends

Three-year-old Emmanuel Samuel died on Sunday after he fell inside a well in front of a building in the Ikorodu area of Lagos.

The kindergarten pupil, his elder brother, Timileyin Samuel, and some of their friends were said to be playing around 3pm in the area when the deceased accidentally strayed into the well.

Residents and officials of the Lagos State Fire Service, who came to the area after receiving a distress call, had difficulties rescuing the victim due to the depth of the well.

It was a member of the Oodua People’s Congress that later summoned up courage and went down the well to rescue the boy at about 7pm. He brought out the boy dead.

The landlord was arrested.