There was confusion in Eku, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State over the weekend, after three children of a woman, Ms Elohor Gabriel, were electrocuted to death by a live wire, following a power surge in the community.
The children were reportedly electrocuted when the covering of the cable connecting power to their apartment burnt and the live wire came in contact with burglar-proof bars of the house. The children, Blessed Adam, 6 years old; Elizabeth Adam, 9 years old; and John Oluwadare, 15 years old were the only ones at home when the incident occurred.
“We ran into our houses when we noticed the spark. When we came outside, we noticed that the children had been electrocuted while holding the burglar-proof bars covering the veranda of the house. We noticed that the wire connecting electricity to the house which passed through the burglary-proof bars, had been burnt, exposing it to the bars. The children touched some of the bars and were electrocuted,” an eyewitness explained.
Mother of the children, Elohor, who is in her late 30s, lamented that she is yet to come to terms with the fact that her three children had gone. “I was not at home when the incident happened and before I got to the hospital, where my neighbours had rushed them to, they were already gone.
“I went out to buy them bread and when I returned, I saw people in the house, who told me what happened. I saw their lifeless bodies at the hospital,” she said.
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