Mother, four children electrocuted during power surge

A mother, Asmau Shehu, and her four children: Yusuf, Rabiat, Ummul and Hadi, have been electrocuted in Anguwan Sarkin Hausawa, Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State.

Malam Ibrahim Husssaini, the Public Relations Officer, Niger State Emergency Management Agency, confirmed the tragedy in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Wednesday.

Husssaini said Shehu and three of the children died immediately during a power surge, while one of them later gave up of the ghost at General Hospital, Minna.

He said two other children: Hussana Shehu and Maryam Shehu, who sustained various degrees of injury had been receiving treatment at the Minna General Hospital.

The image maker said the deceased had been buried according to Islamic rites.

NAN.