Ebonyi State Police Command has confirmed that the explosion that killed Mr and Mrs George Onuabuchi in Abakaliki, State’s capital, was caused by a gas cylinder and not an inverter battery.
This was made known to NEWS AGENCY by the Deputy Superintendent of Police and spokesperson for the Command, Joshua Ukandu, on Thursday that the incident occurred on 25 August.
Ukandu said, “It happened in the Waterworks area of Abakaliki on 25 August. Residents living nearby alerted our personnel, who visited the scene, but the couple had already been taken to the hospital.
“Unfortunately, both have now passed away. The wife, Chioma, died in August, while the husband passed away this month, in September.
“We gathered that the wife was the younger sister of popular Nigerian Afrobeat singer, Patoranking.
“There aren’t many details available, as the victims did not survive to share their account of the event. The cause of death was a gas explosion, not an inverter explosion,” Ukandu clarified.
(NAN)
