A woman and her four family members have been killed in mysterious circumstance as a result of kerosene explosion.
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There was serious commotion in Ozizza, Afikpo area of Ebonyi State
following the 'mysterious death' of a teacher and her four children
during Christmas. The woman and her four children died in kerosene
explosion. The oldest child was aged six while the last was six months
old.
According to Vanguard, the woman identified as Mrs Faith Ejim-
Egwu, was said to have been recently posted to the Unity Secondary
School in the area. She was said to be boiling something on the
Christmas eve at about 7.30 pm when she took out her last child to bath
her while the other three children were already asleep.
But at a point, she was said to have noticed that the fire on the
stove was low and went inside the kitchen of her two- room apartment
with the child she was bathing to ascertain the problem.
According to police sources, it was in the process of ascertaining
the problem that the stove exploded and fire engulfed the whole kitchen.
It was also gathered that the woman tried to open the kitchen and
escape with her child but the door could not open as the jam lock” had
stiffened.
Outsiders who noticed the inferno could also not open the kitchen
as the fire spread to the whole house and burnt the three children who
were sleeping in their room beyond recognition.
When the kitchen door was eventually forced open, both the mother
of the children and the little child had become unconscious but the
sympathisers took her to a nearby hospital which was unable to treat
them .
They were rushed to a second hospital where she managed to say few
words before dying on the Christmas day. Her six month- old child died
three hours after her mother even as her husband who rushed home from
his own location collapsed on arrival but was later revived.
A neighbour, who gave his name as Emma Anyim confirmed the story and attributed “the strange deaths” to spiritual attack.
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