The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed the death of a day-old baby found inside a well at Tsalle Village Gezawa Local Government Area of the state.

According to a statement signed by the State’s Fire Service Public Relations Officer, Saminu Yusuf Abdullahi, the service disclosed that the newborn baby was dumped inside the well by unknown persons who are at large.

Abdullahi disclosed that the service, upon receiving a distress call from one of its officers, Abubakar Ibrahim Dandago, evacuated the body of the baby from the well, Tribune reports.