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Ahmed Ammani, the Enugu State commissioner of police, has directed the state's criminal investigation department to look into the circumstances behind the deaths of six people in a community in Enugu.
Ammani issued the instruction in a press release issued on Sunday night through police Public Relations Officer DSP Daniel Ndukwe.
Akutara village, in the Adani community of the Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, was the site of eight people being hospitalised under the same peculiar circumstances. He also gave the CID department instructions to investigate.
According to the statement, the instructions were issued after receiving a report alleging the sudden and unnatural fatalities and hospitalisation at Akutara village in the Adani community on August 27 at around 9:30 a.m.
The statement said,
“Preliminary investigation reveals that one of the confirmed deceased persons, Obinna Dike, 31, attended his own traditional marriage ceremony at Obollor-Eke in Udenu council area on August 26 with his relatives and other victims of the incident.
“They, thereafter, went back home and continued with the celebration.
“However, the following morning, none of them came out of the room where they slept.
“This caused the door to be forced open, with all of them in the room found to be unconscious with foamy discharge from their mouths.”
They were brought to the hospital, where six of them were determined to be dead and placed in the mortuary for preservation and an autopsy, according to the statement.
Eight more people who survived are currently responding to treatment in a nearby hospital.
The Commissioner, who expressed his condolences to the bereaved families and friends, urged the community members to maintain peace and assist the police with the information they need to determine what caused the victims' deaths.
