Firefighters have recovered the body of an unidentified man from a river near Royal Valley Bridge in the Kulende area of Ilorin, Kwara State.
The Kwara State Fire Service said it received a distress report after a passerby spotted the body floating in the river and contacted Sobi FM, which alerted the emergency team.
The service’s spokesperson, Hassan Adekunle, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He said firefighters responded to the report at 15:44hrs and began efforts to recover the body.
“The fire service received the report and turned it out at 15:44hrs after a passerby who noticed the body in the river contacted Sobi FM, which subsequently alerted the fire service,” he said.
According to Adekunle, the recovered body was that of a man estimated to be around 50 years old.
He added that the firefighters handed over the body to SUP Abdulganiu Garuba of the E-Division Police Station in Kulende, Ilorin, for further necessary action.
However, the circumstances surrounding the incident and what led to the man’s death remain unknown.
“The circumstances surrounding the incident and the cause of the man’s death have not yet been ascertained,” he said.
Adekunle added that further investigations would be carried out to establish what happened.
