Tragedy occurred this morning
in Urugbam in Biase LGA when an 82year old man collapsed, fell into the local
pit toilet and died.
According to eyes witnesses,
the old man prior to the incident, was hale and hearty and showed no sign of
being sick. But on getting to the local pit toilet (called "latrine” by
the locals) and bending down to “poo”, collapsed on top of it, fell into the
pit toilet and died there.
Sympathisers had to rush and
drag him out. But by the time he was dragged out, he was already dead with
maggots and excretes from the pit toilet all over his body. The said
sympathisers had to rush to the local stream to fetch lots of water to clean
him up before taking him to the hospital at the uptown where he has been
deposited at the mortuary.
Since there were witnesses and
people standing by when the incident happened, there have been no suspicions of
foul play or murder related. When we placed a call to the vice chairman of
Biase LGA, Lagos branch Mr Sunday Onegwam, he declined to comment more on this
siting insufficient information at his disposal at the moment.
Meanwhile, calls have placed
to his children and relations who are living outside of Biase. May the soul of
the old man rest in peace
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