Juliana Francis
The Anambra State Police Command said that a family of five that died at the Oze Nkwelle Ezunaka area of the state died of natural causes.
According to the Police spokesman, Ikenga Tochukwu, the incident happened on 17th July 2023 at about 4:am and the lifeless bodies of the family members were discovered in a bungalow at Oze Village, Nkwelle Ezunaka.
He said: “Information in the public domain had it that they died the first night they moved into the new building.
“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, three years, and Catherine Okoh, two years as well as the mother of the wife, Anthonia Onwukube aged 56 years.
“A visit to the scene of the crime revealed a generator connected to the house’s electricity grid and kept in a confined space without proper ventilation.
“An autopsy conducted on the corpses revealed the cause of death to be carbon monoxide poisoning. They were killed by fumes from the generator.
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Aderemi Adeoye, while commiserating with the bereaved families wishes to advise 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.
“Generators are to be kept in well-ventilated spaces while in use. He assures that the Command will continuously sensitize the public to domestic hazards that may claim life in order to reduce such unnecessary and avoidable deaths.”
