A newly married couple, who packed to their house soon after wedding have been reportedly killed by generator fumes in Ikot Omin on the outskirts of Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
The couple, Bassey Effiong (27), his wife, Glory (21) and her younger sister, Emem (16), were said to have packed to the house yet to be completed by Bassey.
“When he got married, he decided to work on one of the rooms and moved in, while hoping to gradually complete the house,” Mike, a neighbour to the couple told Vanguard.
However, tragedy struck, Sunday night, when the couple turned on their generating set and placed it on the corridor close to the room, where they slept but fume from the generating set was said to have subsequently gained entry into the room in large quantity and suffocatded the couple along with Emem, the wife’s younger sister.
They were discovered dead several hours later by a naval officer, David Ekanem, Bassey’s uncle, who said he went there after he called Bassey’s mobile number several times without response and on getting there at 5 pm, Monday, he met the tragic sight.
“I knocked several times on the door but there was no answer, so I had to force the door open. It was then I saw my nephew and his wife along with the young girl lying dead,” the Naval officer said.
Spokesman of the Cross River State Police Command, Mr Hogan Bassey, said the matter was reported by the naval officer and the bodies evacuated to the Infectious Disease Hospital mortuary, Edgerly Road, Calabar.
Vanguard
It is sad. People ought to have learnt lesson from numerous such incident.It is better to do without Gen.Set if you know you do not have space for it. Aside the deadly foam what about the noise. Even even one does not die immediately,this pollution kill gradually. why so many cases of cancer now,asthma and other strange illness today.
ReplyDeleteWell said first commenter but u can't blame anybody on this. In a country where govt cannot provide basic need like electricity and people are even being charged for power they did not use, it is not unwise if u think of a way to help urself. This country is a failure. Many have to install electricity pole and run cables on there own to have access to epileptic supply and the clueless govt still charges for service not provided by them. Afterall generators are not used in the countries where they are produced. Our repressive govt turned our country to dumping groung and they dont care as long as their looting is unaffected. PDP should give other parties chance to rule as it seems our mesiah is not from that party. May their souls rest in peace
ReplyDeleteVery tragic indeed. It keeps on happening everyday. People will not learn from the incidents. They worked hard to buy the generator and to secure it, they locked themselves up with it. It is the same thing all the time. GEJ and his pdp are doing a very good job to reduce the hardship of Nigerians. There will be uninterrupted power supply in 2015. If you don't believe, relocate to Ghana now.
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