Family of Four Had Fond Dreams For The New Month, But Now, See How Everything Has Ended

It is usually the practice for individuals and families to have dreams for the new month, hopes and plans of things to conquer.

It becomes pathetic, very sorrowful however, when instead of fortune, tragedy strikes.

In a Taraba town where one such new month tragedy happened yesterday, residents have remained in sorrow.

It was around 11 am when tragedy visited a family of four residing in the Dinyavo area of Jalingo, Taraba state capital.

Spokesman of the state Police Command, Superintendent Abdullahi Usman, who provided information on the new month incident, said:

“At about 11a.m., (today), information received from reliable sources revealed that a house located at Dinyavoh area of Jalingo was on fire.

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“Detectives from GRA division Taraba Command were deployed to the scene. On arrival, it was discovered that a family of four were found lying with burns all over their body suspected to be from electrocution.

“The victims are Mr. Remond Ofonbuk, 44; Mrs Mfonbong Remond; Heven Remond, male, 15, and First Remond, female, aged 13 years.

“Information has it that as power was restored, the transformer serving the area blew up and many houses within the neighbourhood experienced high electric voltage, which led to the fire outbreak that inflicted burns on the victims.

“However, detectives evacuated the victims to FMC Jalingo for treatment, but they were confirmed dead by a medical doctor.”

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Further information said the corpses had been deposited at the hospital’s mortuary for autopsy, while investigation has commenced to ascertain the real cause of the incident.

This new month tragedy has again raised concerns over constant power outages in the country, especially those that end up claiming human lives, in very avoidable circumstances.  

Picture caption: when four children were electrocuted in Ondo last year