Four youths drowned in a well at Duk quarters in Pankshin town of Plateau State on Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
An eyewitness, Gonjir Goper, told NAN that the deceased: Tonzum Ngwalamba, Nentawe Leptak, Sati Tongleb and Ngompang Ngoshim – aged between 18 and 25, died while trying to push the nozzle of a water pumping machine into the well.
Goper said the first victim was trying to push the nozzle when he fell into the well.
The eyewitness said: “The second victim jumped into the well to rescue the first, but did not come out.
“These rescue efforts continued till the well swallowed the four of them within a very short while.”
Goper described the incident as “shocking and mysterious”.
NAN sources indicated that one of the victims was a son to the owner of the well, one Lamba.
Sa’ad Ibrahim, the Divisional Police Officer of the area, who confirmed the incident, said the corpses of the victims had been removed from the well and deposited at the Pankshin General Hospital.
The Chairman, Interim Management Committee of Pankshin Local Government Area, Stephen Jings, equally expressed shock at the incident, which he said was very unfortunate.
Jings urged parents of the victims to accept it as an act of God.
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