In Nigeria, Five members of Ndenemu family in
Umuatuegwu Okija, Ihiala Local Government
Area of Anambra State have reportedly died
vomiting blood.
The victims were Albert Ndenemenu, a
commercial motorcyclist; his wife, Nwanne
and their three children.
There were conflicting reports about the cause
of their deaths.
While a version of the story said the victims
ate poisoned food (rice), others alleged that a
relation poisoned them.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the
State, Mrs. Nkeiru Nwode, confirmed the
incident.
She said investigations were ongoing, while
awaiting the autopsy.
An eye witness told our correspondent that
Mrs. Nnwanne Ndenemu, who was the last to
die, prepared a rice meal for the family’s
lunch, which all of them ate and shortly after,
her husband and her three children started
vomiting blood.
“When people rushed into their compound
following her alarm, it was discovered that
they were already dead.
“The woman, on seeing the lifeless bodies of
her husband and children, slumped and was
taken to Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching
Hospital, Nnewi, where she also died,” our
source stated.
An indigene of the area, Sir Ignatius Okonkwo,
told our reporter that the cause of death of the
five persons was yet to be ascertained, adding
that efforts made to prevail on the authorities
of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching
Hospital, where the bodies were first
deposited, to conduct an autopsy on the dead
persons did not yield any result.
An in-law to the family was said to have
attempted to take the corpses to a mortuary,
but when stories started doing the rounds that
they might have been poisoned, he brought
the five dead bodies back to their house where
they were lined up in the open for several
hours before some members of the family
decided to return them to the mortuary.
It was gathered that three distant relations of
the diseased persons had been invited by the
police and they were being interrogated at the
Okija Police Station.
Source: punchng
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