A 22-year-old student, has  drowned while swimming in a river in Bauchi state..

A statement by the command’s spokesman, DSP Haruna Mohammed, said that the deceased was a student of Government Secondary School, Toro, Toro Local Government Area of the state.

Mohammed said that the  student, identified as Idris Yakubu, had  gone to have a bath  in a stream in Narabi village when the incident occurred.

He said that the when the police were  alerted about  the incident, a team, which was immediately sent to the scene returned with the body of the boy.

He said that the body was rushed to the General Hospital, Toro, where a medical doctor certified him dead.

Mohammed said that the corpse had been deposited at the hospital’s mortuary pending a post-mortem after which it would be released to the family for burial.

The police advised parents and guardians to warn their children to stay away from streams or rivers in order not to fall victims of drowning.