Okechukwu is the second flood casualty in Ogbaru this week, the other, 9-year-old Benedict Uzo, who died Wednesday while out to fetch water from the river.
Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha
Okechukwu Osadebe, the son of late highlife musician Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, was killed Thursday in a flood that ravaged Atani in Ogbaru local government area of Anambra state.
Okechukwu, 18, is reported to have drowned in the flood Thursday night, with his lifeless body found floating on the river Friday morning.
According to the deceased’s mother, Mrs Amaechi Osadebe, ‘Okey’ (as he was fondly called) was in the company of two persons when he was swept up in the flash flood, with no opportunity for him to escape or be rescued by his friends, as the river was turbulent at the time.
Efforts made to rescue him failed, his mother said, as the flood swept him off to a spot on the river where his body was later found floating in the morning.
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