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How 4 students drowned at Lagos beach while celebrating WASSCE completion

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More details have emerged respecting the tragedy of the four teenagers that drowned on Tuesday at the Elegushi Beach, in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

It has been gathered that the four teenagers, who drowned while swimming in the beach, are actually students of Kuramo Senior College, Lekki.

The students, aged between 14 and 15, reportedly went to swim at the beach to celebrate the completion of their West African Senior School Examination (WASSCE) which results were released last week by the West African Examination Council (WAEC).

It was learnt the ten of the secondary school leavers, aged between 14 and 15, were swimming at an unmanned section of the beach not open to the public.

The management had earlier sent them away from the area of the beach they wanted to swim in but they went to another place that was not for the public.

It was while swimming at the prohibited area that they were swept away by the tide.

Narrating the ordeal of the students in a statement on Tuesday, the spokesperson for the Elegushi Beach Management, Chief Ayuba Elegushi, stated:

“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.”

Explaining further, Elegushi said:

“Out of the six that were rescued, some escaped by the time we got there. We were able to arrest two of them and we took them to the Jakande Police Station.

“As of now, there are still four missing as our seamen have not been able to bring them out of the water. We have informed their parents and they have come to the police station.

“Abass is one of the missing kids. There is another boy we have not identified and two other girls,” he added.

The spokesperson said the two boys that were arrested told the police that they were chased from the beach before sneaking into the restricted section to swim.

“They wrote in their statements that they were chased from the first section they went to.

Abass told them that they should not worry and he would take them to another part of the beach. He took them to another end of the beach where no one could see them,” he said.

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident and that investigation was ongoing, added:

“The teenagers were from Kuramo Senior College, Lekki. Four of them are missing. They are two males and two females.

“Efforts are on to recover their bodies. We have yet to meet with the parents of the victims,” he concluded.

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