The Ebonyi State Police Command says the explosion that claimed the lives of a couple, Mr. and Mrs. George Onuabuchi in Abakaliki, the state capital, was from a gas cylinder and not from an inverter battery.
Joshua Ukandu, the Command’s spokesman, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday that the incident occurred on August 25, 2024.
Ukandu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said that preliminary investigation showed that the couple died from a gas explosion.
He said: “It happened on the waterworks axis in Abakaliki on August 25.
“The residents living around the scene called the attention of our personnel who visited the place but the couple has already been taken to hospital.
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“It’s very unfortunate that both finally died.
“The wife, Chioma, died sometime in August, while the husband died this month, September.
“We gathered that the wife was a younger sister to the popular Nigerian Afrobeat singer, Patoranking.
“There are not many details because the victims could not survive to tell the story.
“So, what killed them was gas and not an inverter explosion.”
Also speaking with NAN, one of the relatives who refused to mention his name described the incident as bad for the family.
The relative said: “They were a young couple.
“They had only one child, a three-year-old son.
“Please I have more to say.
“I cannot say more than this.
“They have gone.”
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