POLICE COMMAND: APPRENTICE DIED THE FIRST NIGHT MOVE INTO A NEW BUILDING
The Police Command in Anambra state has confirmed the death of a family of Five in a bungalow at Oze Village, Nkwelle Ezunaka.
Information in the public domain had it that they the man and his wife as well as two of their children, his mother in law and his new apprentice died the first night they moved into a new building said to be built by the deceased.
A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer , DSP Tochukwu Ikenga says an autopsy conducted on the corpses revealed the cause of death to be carbon monoxide poisoning.
They were killed by fumes from the generator.
Names of the deceased were given as Ifeanyi Okoh, 32 years from Akebugu, Enugu State; his wife Chiamaka Okoh, 28 Years; Two of their children, Chinecherem Okoh, 3 Years, and Catherine Okoh, 2 Years as well as the mother of the wife, Anthonia Onwukube aged 56 years.
The release says a visit to the scene of the crime revealed a generator connected to the house electricity grid was kept in a confined space without proper ventilation.
The Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye while commiserating with the bereaved families advised the public on the terrible dangers of operating generators indoors as carbon monoxide which is emitted in the fume is a deadly gas that has wiped out several families due to ignorance.
The statements notes that generators are to be kept in well-ventilated spaces while in use.The Commissioner of Police assures that the Command will continuously sensitize the public on domestic hazards that may claim life in order to reduce such unnecessary and avoidable deaths.