The body of one of the four students who drowned at Elegushi Beach, in Lekki area of Lagos State on Tuesday, has been recovered.
This was confirmed today by the Police spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin .Back to the incident where ten students of Kuramo Senior College ,Lekki at the age range of 14,15,16 were swimming at the beach , celebrating their end of NECO (National Examination Council of Nigeria) when the beach took four of the students.
Six other students were said to have been rescued by local divers.Chief Ayuba Elegushi, spokesperson for the Elegushi Beach Management, on Tuesday said the students were not properly registered.According to him, the incident occurred at an unmanned section of the beach not open to the public.“We initially sent them away from the area of the beach they wanted to swim in. Then, they went to another place that was not for the public at all. It was the child of our kinsman, Abass, who took them from school to the beach and those kids followed him. 
“They did not pay any gate fee to access the beach. Abass used the leverage that he was one of us to take them through another place,” Ayuba added .Efforts to recover the bodies of three other students swept away by the beach.
