A 34-year-old man has died after drowning in the Elegushi Beach, in Lagos State, during a church hangout event.
The victim, identified as John, was a member of an unnamed Ikorodu-based church which had organised a picnic for its youths on Saturday.
Trouble, however, started when the members were about to leave the beach that Saturday afternoon but couldn’t locate him anywhere.
It was learned that as the church members began searching for him, someone informed them that they had seen him go into the water. Lifeguards and divers were alerted but efforts to locate him in the water that Saturday proved abortive.
It was gathered that his body was only recovered by lifeguards on Tuesday afternoon at the beach.
A source who witnessed the event but doesn’t want to be named said, “A church from Ikorodu had come to Elegushi beach for a hangout on Saturday. They were just young people who came around to have fun; about 35 of them came that Saturday.
“It happened that late in the afternoon when they were packing up to leave, they called everyone to make sure that they were all accounted for, 35 of them, before they left. That was how they realised that one of them, John, was missing.
Folarin Kehinde is an Abuja-based journalist with over 5 years of experience in journalism. His work has earned him national and international recognition across various beats, including environment, health and politics.
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