Tragedy as students celebrating success in WAEC drown in Elegushi beach

Four teenagers celebrating their success in the just-concluded West African Senior School Certificate Examination have lost their lives in Elegushi beach.

The management of the Elegushi Beach in Lagos State has described as unfortunate the incident, which occurred on Tuesday.

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

Elegushi explained that the incident occurred at an unmanned section of the beach area, which was not open to the public.

According to him, about 10 teenage boys visited the beach on Tuesday morning, to celebrate the success of their WAEC results.

He said while the beach authority and security team turned them back, the boys took a detour and went to an unmanned section of the beach area to swim.

He noted that unfortunately, about 10 of them were almost drowning before the beach security were alerted to the scene and six of them were rescued alive while four were still missing as at press time.

“While the matter has been reported at the Ilasan Police Station, effort is still on to find the missing boys,” he said.