By Abdulsamad Ibrahim
The body of one Okechukwu Orwabo who was swept off by the rain at Oke-Erin area of Ilorin metropolis have been recovered, Fresh Insight can report.
It would be recalled Fresh Insight had reported that no fewer than 4 people were swept away by the heavy downpour owing to the collapse Oke-Erin bridge earlier today, with fears that they might have died.
Confirming the fears, the fire service through its official Facebook page few minutes ago have confirmed the identity of the picked dead body as one of those swept off by the heavy downpour, leaving Chuben Orwabo and Chibike Orwabo both family members of the deceased who were also swept away by the downpour unseen either alive or dead as at the time of filing this report.
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