Generator fume allegedly killed six family members of a businessman in Boji Boji Owa community in Ika South LGA of Delta State on Friday night.
The toxic fume suffocated the victims due to the fact that their room windows were locked from inside preventing the smoke from leaving the room.
According to the father of the victims who did not want his name in print, they forgot to put off the generating set after watching a World Cup football match.
He said, “I lost a son of 14 years old and five others to the generator fume. Before now, the little boy and his elder brothers slept together but while we bought fuel to watch the football match, we forgot to put off the generating set, and I and the mother retired to bed. The next morning, my daughter who is the younger sister of the victims knocked on the door without anybody opening it. The door was later forced opened where the six family members were found dead.”
While the police authorities in the area said the deceased had been taken to the hospital mortuary for proper investigation, the father of the victim added that “it was later discovered that my children did not only use it to watch football but to watch Nigerian movie after the football match”.
He said out of eight children that his wife had for him, he is now left with only two.