Tragedy has hit the industrial city of
Aba, Abia State where a whole family
comprising a man, his wife and their
only son as well as their dog passed
on in their sleep.
The tragic incident which happened
last weekend shook the city and sent
tongues wagging on what could have
led to the death of a complete family
in their sleep after going to bed the
previous night all hale and hearty.
Saturday Sun gathered that the head
of the household, Boniface Ejiagwu,
58, his wife Rebecca Ejiagwu, 50, and
son Chukwudi Ejiagwu, 28, who
hailed from Ezi-Owelle Anambra
State and lived in their family house
at No. 23 Onitsha road, Over Rail,
Aba had in the morning of Saturday
last week, gone out for their normal
daily businesses.
As usual, in the evening, they all
came back to their house hale and
hearty. It was further gathered that
after their return home, the man’s
wife prepared food which they ate and
after a while, went to bed. That was
their last meal on earth as the three
members died in their sleep same
night. It was believed that their dog
which also died same night must
have eaten from the same meal.
The irony of it all was that they died
and nobody, not even their
neighbours got wind of their death
until after four days when their bodies
had started decomposing and
offensive odour began to ooze out
from their room.
It was then that neighbours on
Wednesday, reported the incident to
the police who after coming to see
things themselves, gave order on the
request of some family members that
the corpses should be taken for
burial.
The question police detectives will
need to find answer to is ‘What could
be responsible for the death of the
three family members in such
circumstance when they did not put
on any generator before going to bed
as to say they died of generator
fume?’
Nobody was ready to speak about the
fate that befell this family while the
pressure of close relations on the
police to have the corpses released to
them for burial without conducting
autopsy was said to have
compounded the crisis.
There are however insinuations the
deceased might have died of food
poisoning in their apartment which is
commonly referred to as ‘face me I
face you’.
The state police command public
relations officer, PPRO, Geoffrey
Ogbonna could not be reached for
comments but a senior police officer
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity said they are suspecting
the deceased might have died of food
poisoning.
“Nobody can say for sure now what
killed them, that could have been
found out through autopsy but we are
suspecting they may have died of
food poisoning”, the police officer
added.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/tragic-family-wiped-man-wife-son-dog-die-sleep/

eee

rip

Food poisoning definitely!

RIP to the deceased.

Most likely carbon monoxide poisoning from generator fumes