Teenager found dead in Gombe gully after overnight rainstorm

The Gombe Reveal Police Expose has confirmed the loss of life of an unidentified teenage boy whose body changed into stumbled on in a gully at Hayin Kwarin Misau Quarters on Monday morning, following a night time of heavy rainfall.

Police Public Family members Officer, DSP Buhari Abdullahi, said officers answered to a injure call at spherical 6:30 a.m. and visited the scene.

In accordance with him, preliminary observations published no visible accidents on the boy’s body, elevating suspicions that he'll possess drowned one day of the downpour.

“The officers stumbled on no indicators of violence or physical assault on the body,” Abdullahi said. “We suspect he could maybe possess been swept away by floodwaters due to this of the overnight rain.”

The boy, estimated to be spherical 15 years weak, had no identification on him when he changed into stumbled on. His body changed into taken to the Gombe Specialist Clinical institution, the set he changed into confirmed dreary by a scientific doctor.

Abdullahi eminent that detectives documented the scene and that a formal investigation is underway to set the right conditions of the incident. He appealed to residents to assist the police in figuring out the deceased.

“We are doing every thing we can to trace his family,” he said. “We flee anyone with priceless files to file to the closest police space.”

The incident highlights rising concerns over the dangers posed by gully erosion and flooding one day of the moist season in parts of Gombe Reveal.