Two others unconscious

Four males, suspected to be ‘Yahoo Boys’, were Thursday morning confirmed dead in a hostel located in the Delta State University community, Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state. Two others were reported to be unconscious, and are receiving medical attention at the hospital in Eku.

Though details of what led to the death of the victims were still sketchy at the time of filing this report; it was however gathered that the victims were among seven persons that slept in a room of a hostel located at Ogboru Street, Abraka.

Efforts to contact the state Police Public Relations Officer, Onome Onowakpoyeya on the incident were not successful, but a source at the Abraka Police Station who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed the incident. The source said the remains of the victims have been deposited in a morgue.

He also said that an alarm was raised by the seventh occupant of the room when the victims were discovered to be unconscious – adding that two of the victims are siblings of the same mother with the third victim being their cousin.

The source said:

“All seven boys with unknown source of livelihood, stay in the apartment. It was the seventh occupant who raised the alarm in the early hours of today (yesterday) after he claimed to have discovered that some of his roommates were unconscious as he too was feeling uncomfortable.

“They were immediately rushed to the General Hospital, Abraka where the four were confirmed dead while the unconscious two were subsequently referred to the Government/Baptist hospital, Eku for treatment.

“Investigations into unravelling what led to the incident is currently ongoing and pending when investigations are concluded, we can’t tell what actually led to the death of the victims.

“However, the seventh victim has been interrogated by the police and is helping us with investigations into the circumstances surrounding the ugly incident.”