Tragedy struck in Calabar after a newly married couple who
moved to their house after their wedding were 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 the husband.
According
to a neighbour “When he got married, he decided to work on one of the
rooms and moved in, while hoping to gradually complete the house”.
However
on 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 gained entry into the room
in large quantity and suffocated the couple along with Emem, the wife’s
younger sister.
They were found dead several hours later by a
naval officer, David Ekanem, Bassey’s uncle, who decided to go over to
the couple's house after several attempt to reach Bassey's mobile phone
was futile 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. Source-Naij
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