•The late couple
The Nigerian Police, Ebonyi State Command, has disclosed that the sudden death of the sister of a Nigerian singer, Patoranking and her husband, Mr and Mrs George Onuabuchi in Abakaliki, Ebonyi capital, was from a gas cylinder explosion and not from an inverter battery.
DSP Joshua Ukandu, spokesman of the Command told our correspondent yesterday that the incident occurred on August 25, reports NAN.
Ukandu said that a preliminary investigation showed that the couple died from a gas explosion.
“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.
“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 no much details because the victims could not survive to tell the story. So, what killed them was gas and not inverter explosion,” the police spokesman explained.
Also speaking with our correspondent, one of the relatives who refused to mention his name described the incident as bad for the family.
“They were young couple. They had only a child, three-year-old son.
“Please I have more to say but I cannot say more than this. They have gone,” the relative said.
