More deaths throw Kano into panic
Kano State again lost two prominent citizens on Sunday, to “a strange disease” that has left residents in fear.
Our correspondent gathered that Yahaya and Maikaba who were both diabetic died within 10-hour interval after developing slight fever on Saturday night and Sunday morning. “We are already moving to the Abattoir Cemetery where he will be buried,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria. They called on the government to expedite action on the investigation into the remote and immediate causes of the deaths.
“I am not a medical doctor, so, I cannot explain exactly the circumstances behind these deaths. It could be due to the intensive heat; and as I can observe, most of the dead bodies that we have buried were mostly elderly people.”
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