Benin: Two-Year-Old Girl Rescued After Falling into a Sanitation Structure

A two-year-old girl identified by the initials Z. O. was rescued alive and conscious from a deep sanitation structure in Avogbanan, in the commune of Bohicon. Agents of Benin’s Civil Protection Agency found her with a few scratches and took her to the pediatric emergency department at the Goho Departmental Hospital in Abomey. The agency did not specify when or how the fall occurred. The rescue follows a similar incident in September, when a man fell into a cistern in Agongointo, and the agency urged residents to secure wells, cisterns and other deep structures.