CALABAR — 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.
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