Four teenage girls have drowned in a pond in Sakwaya village, Dutse, Jigawa state.
They were confirmed dead after attempting to swim across the pond.
Spokesman of the state Police command, DSP Abdu Jinjiri, gave their names as Sumayya Gadi 7, Zuwaira Abdulhamidu 12, Gaji Saidu 12 and Ummi Saidu 11.
He said the deceased drowned in the pond after they tried to swim on their way to fetch firewood in nearby Farantawa village of Albasu local government area of Kano state.
Jinjiri said that the incident was reported to the police by the relatives of the victims around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, after they recovered their corpses.
He said the deceased were confirmed dead at a nearby hospital stressing that the Corpses have been buried according to Islamic rites.
