No fewer than eight Almajiri students are suspected to have died as a portion of Dukk Hill in the Badariya area Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State allegedly collapsed on them.
PUNCH reports that the headteacher of the Tsagniya school, Dan Umma, said that the incident happened on Saturday morning.
He said, “I am yet to know the cause as I was alerted by the cries of people at the back of the house only to see that a large portion of the hill has fallen on the Almajiris killing eight of them instantly while one was rescued from the rubbles and has been admitted in the hospital.
The hill is just behind my house, housing me and the Almajiris and this is the same place they use as toilets and also dig it to collect clay to mould clay blocks in preparation to build a small room for themselves.”
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