Information reaching this online media says that there was serious Tears As Groom, Others Die On Wedding Night.
The police commissioner in Enugu, Ahmed Ammani, has ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of six people in an Enugu community.
The commissioner also directed the department to unravel why eight patients were hospitalised under the same strange circumstances in Akutara village in the Adani community of the Uzo-Uwani local government area.
The commissioner’s directives were disclosed in a statement by the police spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Sunday in Enugu.
Mr Ndukwe said the directives were given after receiving a report alleging the sudden and unnatural deaths and hospitalisation at Akutara village on Saturday.
A source in Adani community, who pleaded for anonymity, told Vanguard that they were suspecting food poisoning.
The source also said other people are suspecting that the victims died of carbon dioxide inhaled from a power generator, which was brought onto the veranda of a house where the victims stayed while it was raining when they returned from the wedding ceremony.
The source said the actual cause of the deaths will be ascertained when an autopsy is conducted on the dead bodies.
The source said: “I learned that the victims, who returned from Obollo-Afor where they attended a wedding, started dying mysteriously. I was equally told that the mysterious deaths might have been caused by food poisoning while others are saying that it might be caused by a generator fume, which was taken to the veranda of a house where they stayed when it was raining.
“There is also a suspicion that the guests died of the effect of an insecticide, which was sprayed to rid the room of mosquitoes. We are really in a state of confusion now. It is only an autopsy that would determine what killed them.”
This online media gathered that it was a neighbour, who had gone to receive the new bride that noticed how the victims were lying helplessly on the floor and alerted others who joined him to take them to hospitals.
The police commissioner in Enugu, Ahmed Ammani, has ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of six people in an Enugu community.
The commissioner also directed the department to unravel why eight patients were hospitalised under the same strange circumstances in Akutara village in the Adani community of the Uzo-Uwani local government area.
The commissioner’s directives were disclosed in a statement by the police spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Sunday in Enugu.
Mr Ndukwe said the directives were given after receiving a report alleging the sudden and unnatural deaths and hospitalisation at Akutara village on Saturday.
The police spokesman stated that the commissioner had already commiserated with the families and friends of the deceased and noted that the police boss called on the community’s residents to maintain peace and support the police with the necessary information in the investigation.
“Preliminary investigation reveals that one of the confirmed deceased victims, Obinna Dike, 31, attended his own traditional marriage ceremony at Obollor-Eke in Udenu council area on August 26 with his relatives and other victims of the incident,” the police statement explained. “They thereafter went back home and continued with the celebration.”
The statement added that the following morning, “none of them came out of the room where they slept.”
“This caused the door to be forced open, with all of them in the room found to be unconscious with foamy discharges from their mouths,” the police said.
According to the statement, they were evacuated to a hospital, where six of them were confirmed dead and deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.
The police said eight others had been responding to treatment.
