According to Celeb News Arena dot Com Eight pupils, who were returning from a primary school in Ikot Abia-Enyie in the Nsit Atai Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, have perished in the Atang River pictured.

The river is said to have divided Ikot Abia-Enyie village into two; with all the facilities in the area ─ a health centre, a primary and a secondary school ─ located on one side of it. On Friday, following a heavy downpour, the river overflowed its bank.

Explaining how the kids drowned, the Chairman of the village council, Chief Etop Umanah, stated that it was the custom of the villagers to wait for the pupils and women at the bank of the river after the closing hours whenever there was a downpour.

He said the pupils were crossing the river from their schools to the other side when the incident happened.

Umanah added that before the men from the village could get to the river to rescue the pupils, the river had taken them away. He added that their corpses were recovered three days after.

He revealed that in 2014, three pupils and a pregnant woman died in the river, noting that the pupils were also coming back from school, while the pregnant woman was making her way back from the health centre.

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