Generator fumes kills newly-wed couple, one other in Calabar

CALABAR — A newly married couple, who
packed to their house soon after wedding
have been reportedly killed by generator
fumes in Ikot Omin on the outskirts of
Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
The couple, Bassey Effiong (27), his wife,
Glory (21) and her younger sister, Emem
(16), were said to have packed to the
house yet to be completed by Bassey.
“When he got married, he decided to work
on one of the rooms and moved in, while
hoping to gradually complete the house,”
Mike, a neighbour to the couple told
Vanguard.
However, tragedy struck, Sunday night,
when the couple turned on their
generating set and placed it on the
corridor close to the room, where they
slept but fume from the generating set
was said to have subsequently gained
entry into the room in large quantity and
suffocatded the couple along with Emem,
the wife’s younger sister.
They were discovered dead several hours
later by a naval officer, David Ekanem,
Bassey’s uncle, who said he went there
after he called Bassey’s mobile number
several times without response and on
getting there at 5 pm, Monday, he met the
tragic sight.
“I knocked several times on the door but
there was no answer, so I had to force the
door open. It was then I saw my nephew
and his wife along with the young girl
lying dead,” the Naval officer said.
Spokesman of the Cross River State
Police Command, Mr Hogan Bassey, said
the matter was reported by the naval
officer and the bodies evacuated to the
Infectious Disease Hospital mortuary,
Edgerly Road, Calabar.