Kerosene explosion: Cop’s last surviving family member dies
The policeman, who recently lost his six children to kerosene explosion in Oghara, Delta State, has lost his wife as a result of the explosion.
The wife, Mrs. Edna Adeleke died on Monday at the University of Benin Teaching Hospiral where she had been receiving treatment after explosion.
She was rushed to the hospital along with her six children last month after they sustained what doctors described as over 85 percent degree burns arising from the explosion of a lantern which she had lit on the fateful day.
Four of her children had earlier died shortly after they were admitted into the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara where they were rushed to for medical attention.
However, two other children who were referred with their mother to UBTH died later leaving their mother who finally succumb to death on Monday. With her death, her husband, Mr. Hope Adeleke, a police corporal serving in Warri was now left in a lonely world of his own, having lost his entire family members of seven to kerosene explosion.
Besides the death of Adeleke’s family members, two other persons, a woman and an 11-year-old girl had lost their lives in kerosene explosions. Forty-three incidents of kerosene explosion resulting in deaths in some cases, had also been reported in Rivers State, raising fears that further cases of explosion might be recorded in other parts of the country, following scarcity of kerosene which had forced unscrupulous dealers of the commodity to adulterate the product.
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