Kwara State | Woman found Dead in Mosque’s Well

A 65-year old woman, who was in charge of ensur­ing proper sanitary con­dition of a mosque in llorin, Kwara State was found dead in­side a well at the mosque prem­ises on Saturday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the inci­dent occurred at Ansarul Deen Mosque, Osere area of Sawmill in llorin West Local Govern­ment Area of the state.

Eye witnesses’ account re­vealed that the dead woman popularly known as “lya Majeo­baje” fell into the well on Friday while fetching water to clean the mosque.

They said that there was no­body within the vicinity of the mosque to rescue her when she fell inside the well at about 5p.m.

None of the worshipers in the mosque took notice of any hu­man being inside the well dur­ing the evening and early morn­ing Saturday prayers.

Some of the residents of the area who discovered the dead woman immediately alerted the state fire service in llorin.

The Director of the State Fire Service, Mr. Tiamiyu Raji, while confirming the incident said personnel from the Fire Service removed the woman from the well dead on Saturday after­noon.

He said that the corpse of the woman was taken to the B Divi­sion of Police State Command, Surulere in llorin.

Effort to speak with the Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, Sam­uel Okasanmi on the incident proved futile.