Four teenagers celebrating WASSCE success drown at Elegushi Beach

The management of Elegushi Beach in Lagos State has described as regrettable the drowning that occurred on Tuesday on part of the beach, which claimed the lives of four teenagers.

Chief Ayuba Elegushi, on behalf of the beach management, said so in a statement made available to journalists.

Elegushi explained that the incident happened in an unmanned section of the beach, which was not open to the public.

According to him, about 10 teenagers went to the beach on Tuesday morning to celebrate the success of their WAEC results.

He said that while the beach authorities and security team were turning them away, the boys took a detour and went to an unmanned section of the beach to swim.

He noted that sadly about 10 of them were nearly drowned before beach security was alerted to the scene and six of them were rescued alive while four did not have this luck.

“Although the case was reported to Ilasan Police Station, efforts are still ongoing to find the missing boys,” he said.

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