Lucky Obukohwo, ReportingÂ
A student of Ogbe secondary school in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, has drowned in a swimming pool in the state.
The student whose identity was yet to be ascertained as at the time of filing this report, was said to have left the school with other of his school mates to a popular hotel at the Government Reservation Area (GRA), Benin, to swim in its pool facility.
A source who brought the dead body to the Edo Specialist Hospital along Sapele road, but preferred anonymity, said that some of his school mates whom they were swimming together, drew the attentions of the people around to what was happening.
He said when they got there, they discovered that the boy was already unconscious.
The source said that he has to rush him to the Edo Specialist Hospital where he was confirmed dead.
At the Edo Specialist Hospital, the distraught mother was seeing crying uncontrollably.