Five girls were found dead this morning in Ikeja, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, after yesterday’s heavy rains forced them to sleep in a poorly ventilated room in their restaurant where they worked.
The corpses of the four teenage-girls and a baby-girl, aged between three months and 18 years, were discovered this morning inside the stuffy room on Allen Avenue in Ikeja.
Neighbours told P.M.NEWS that the girls may have died of suffocation overnight in the room where they sought refuge after rains wreacked havoc in Lagos yesterday.
Two other girls, who also slept in the same room, were still in critical condition at Bodet Hospital at Alausa in Ikeja, it was gathered. They were said to be responding to treatment.
The five corpses were brought to Area F Police Station in Ikeja early today in a commuter bus.
P.M.NEWS learnt that a mother and her three-month-old girl were among the dead.
The victims, it was gathered, were brought sometime ago from neighbouring Benin Republic to work in a restaurant in Lagos. The restaurant owner, who was at the police station this morning, disclosed that she had brought them from Benin Republic to train them.
The two other girls still battling for life at Bodet Hospital, our correspondent gathered, are Nigerians.
The woman, walling at the station, disclosed that she had asked the girls to cook outside their restaurant yesterday and stay in the restaurant until the rains stopped.
“My girls don’t usually sleep in the restaurant,” she said, “I did not know that they slept in the restaurant yesterday. I asked them to cook outside the restaurant when they phoned me and said that water had entered the restaurant.”
“This morning, as I kept calling them, nobody was picking. I was worried and someone picked the call and told me that my girls are dead. I rushed here to confirm it. I can’t believe what I am seeing,” she lamented.
A man, who claimed to be the brother of one of the dead girls, was weeping at the station this morning.
Neighbours and friends who besieged the police station this morning wept and expressed shock. The five corpses were later taken to the Lagos State University Hospital, LASUTH.
Source: Simon Ateba, PM News
...and the fatalities start coming in...
ReplyDeleteOMG...i just hope they were not staying 'indoors' based on the advice of the commissioner.
ReplyDeleteits really sad...just short of words
So so sad! I hope there was no generator fumes involved. Naija **shaking my head**
ReplyDeleteAH!!!JEsu...I am sure it was carbon monoxide poisoning!
ReplyDeletecall me supersticious but what manner of bad luck is following this goodluck jonathan first its boko haram which he has been unable to take any pro active measures to quell now its flooding.if he had made road constructions his top priority and funded nema they would have complimented brf's work in lagos.
ReplyDeletewe nigerians especially lagosians need to make cleanliness a priority,stop littering drainages with pure water wrappers and other dirts,the end result is incessant flooding as the drainages will be blocked may their souls rest in peace
am sure these girls were electrocuted, mayb d water touched a socket or something.....still racking my head.....RIP
ReplyDeleteThere is absolutely no respect or reverence for human life in Nigeria and thats the root of all our problems. I cant help but notice d manner in which their lifeless bodies are flung in the bus. Thats how d bodies would have been jumping up and down in the car on on our horrible roads. sad stories everyday
ReplyDelete@ "babe" ... What difference does it make where they stayed? They are all DEAD! SMH
ReplyDeletelooks like carbon monoxide or radon poisoning. May their souls rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteNow that lady has got some problems.....
not wishing this on anybody
It sounds as if they died from carbon monoxide poisoning. I got this from the statement that the room was poorly ventilated. Chances are they all died in their sleep or they passed out from the carbon monoxide poisoning and then died. So sad and preventable.
ReplyDeletehow can suffocation alone kill them. did they have generator on?
ReplyDeleteso they took their bodies from the restaurant, threw them into a danfo bus? In the process, they had to throw the baby's body on the floor?
ReplyDeleteYou can see the baby's body on the floor to the left of the picture.
OMG... this is scary! could it have been a case of carbon monoxide poison? it's colorless,tasteless and odourless kind of gas. very toxic.
ReplyDeletedon't nijas living in ajegunle, shomolu, fegge onitsha, and many slums in Nigeria sleep in very poorly ventilated rooms with all windows and doors tightly shut...hope they weren't poisoned or something to that effect..i smell foul play...
ReplyDeletethat is bad... how can she tell them to cook outside when you know that it was flooded?
ReplyDeleteGOD have mercy..its a pity,,may be the souls of d departed RIP
ReplyDeletePeople shod stop trivializing major issues. It's just a pity but a great lesson for all. May their souls rest in peace
ReplyDeletePls, Linda, the picture you posted looks to me like corpse inside an LT bus and not a Restaurant. CLEARIFICATION PLSSSSSSSSSS.
ReplyDeletethis actually looks lik a bus now.... doesn't seem lik a shop 2 me... wow! rili sad
ReplyDeleteGory and unfortunate! A poorly ventilated room will not kill them. They’d have woken up and coughed a whole lot.
ReplyDeleteSince it’s a restaurant, there’ll be bad fumes. Like most others have said, carbon monoxide poisoning may be at fault. In true Nigerian fashion, do they do health and safety checks on ALL restaurants? I doubt it.
Too many deaths are occurring this year.
sounds like a case of carbon monoxide poisoning. May they Truly RIP.
ReplyDeleteAll these sad stories, all these gory tales. what is happening dear Lord? God help us all, amen
ReplyDeleteThere are so many things wrong with that country I do not know where to start. People cannot always wait for the govt to do everything or nothing would get done. You have to rally as a nation and start to right these wrongs from investing in simple processes individually, may just maybe, things like these would be prevented.
ReplyDeleteSee pple dying like flies and their corpses treated like maggots, human life seems to be worth 1 dime for a dozen... Smh
ReplyDeleteMay their souls Rest In Peace.
ReplyDeletecant you guyssss readddddd.. the bodies were taken to the station in a busssss hence the picture in the bus.... comprende?
ReplyDeletecant you guyssss readddddd.. the bodies were taken to the station in a busssss hence the picture in the bus.... comprende?
ReplyDeleteonly in naija will they leak this kind of tasteless photos and their won't be consequences. nonsense. no respect for human lives.,
ReplyDeleteTotal lack of disrespect for the dead. Imagine their corpse thrown into a Danfo bus, and the baby on the floor. What sort of country is Nigeria? Oh the poor baby, no ambulance to take them to the morgue or what...Terribly sad, may the souls of the departed rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteIn this case no one is to blame what just happen cold happen to any one. may God grant their gentle soul peace....Amen
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