Family of five, which comprises of a couple and three children have been reportedly found dead at their apartment in Apapa, Lagos state over suspected generator fume.
It was gathered that the decomposing bodies of the Olorungbo family were found after several efforts to contact the husband, Lawrence Olorungbo and his wife on their phones proved futile.
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According to reports, a yet-to-be-identified associate reportedly visited the family. On getting there, he found the door locked. After a while of knocking the door and no one answered, he started perceiving a strange smell oozing from the apartment.
He reportedly visited the Apapa Police Station to alert policemen about his observation.
In a bid to investigate the situation, the policemen were said to have forced their way into the house and met the lifeless bodies of the couple and their three children.
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Meanwhile, the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, has began an investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of the victims.
The incident was confirmed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, who noted that the police suspected generator fumes as the cause of death.
Hundeyin said;
The incident is true; they met the entire family dead and they have been evacuated but the autopsy has not been concluded. An investigation is ongoing.
How the corpses were discovered was that the husband’s number was not going through, so they went to check him at home and the decomposing corpses of him and his wife were found.
Paper works for the autopsy is ongoing, but everything indicates that the suspected cause of the victims’ death was generator fumes. The direction of the generator’s exhaust indicates that the fume emitting from the generator was the suspected cause of their deaths. But the autopsy will be done soon.
