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.
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