16 members suffocate during church service in Aba

By Emmanuel Uzodinma on July 27, 2014

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An inter-denominational fellowship, organized by the Young Peoples Christian Fellowship in Aba, Abia State, on Saturday turned tragic as the worshipers suffocated after allegedly inhaling generator fumes.
A source disclosed that sixteen of the worshipers were affected by the fume, adding that one of them died before getting to hospital.
The six years old boy, child of one of the victims, was already dead before police could gain entrance into the scene of incident.

 

He said that the remaining fifteen worshipers were in various hospitals receiving medical attention and that they are responding positively to medical attention.
At the moment, while 11 persons are currently receiving medical attention at Austine Grace Hospitals, four are also on admission at Goodness and Mercies hospital at Faulks road Aba, Abia State.
The Deputy Governor of Abia State, Chief Sir Emeka Ananaba was at the hospitals where the victims were being treated to ascertain their conditions.
Dr. Mark Iwuagwu, a medical doctor at one of the hospitals where the victims were rushed to for medical attention while speaking to reporters at the end of the Deputy Governor’s visit to his hospital attributed the cause of the incident to the carbon mono-oxide poison they inhaled from a generator outside the hall where the service was hosted.