SHOCKING: WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OUT

Tragedy has hit the industrial city of Aba, Abia State where a whole family comprising a man, his wife and their only son as well as their dog passed on in their sleep.The tragic incident which happened last weekend shook the city and sent tongues wagging on what could have led to the death of a complete family in their sleep after going to bed the previous night all hale and hearty.

Saturday Sun gathered that the head of the household, Boniface Ejiagwu, 58, his wife Rebecca Ejiagwu, 50, and son Chukwudi Ejiagwu, 28, who hailed from Ezi-Owelle Anambra State and ...lived in their family house at No. 23 Onitsha road, Over Rail, Aba had in the morning of Saturday last week, gone out for their normal daily businesses.

As usual, in the evening, they all came back to their house hale and hearty. It was further gathered that after their return home, the man’s wife prepared food which they ate and after a while, went to bed. That was their last meal on earth as the three members died in their sleep same night.  It was believed that their dog which also died same night must have eaten from the same meal.

The irony of it all was that they died and nobody, not even their neighbours got wind of their death until after four days when their bodies had started decomposing and offensive odour began to ooze out from their room.

It was then that neighbours on Wednesday, reported the incident to the police who after coming to see things themselves, gave order on the request of some family members that the corpses should be taken for burial.

The question police detectives will need to find answer to is ‘What could be responsible for the death of the three family members in such circumstance when they did not put on anygenerator before going to bed as to say they died of generator fume?’

Nobody was ready to speak about the fate that befell this family while the pressure of close relations on the police to have the corpses released to them for burial without conducting autopsy was said to have compounded the crisis.

There are however insinuations the deceased might have died of food poisoning in their apartment which is commonly referred to as ‘face me I face you’.

The state police command public relations officer, PPRO, Geoffrey Ogbonna could not be reached for comments but a senior police officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity said they are suspecting the deceased might have died of food poisoning.

“Nobody can say for sure now what killed them, that could have been found out through autopsy but we are suspecting they may have died of food poisoning”, the police officera dded.