FOUR CHILDREN DIE WITH FEMALE TEACHER ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN EBONYI STATE.

FOUR CHILDREN DIE WITH FEMALE TEACHER ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN EBONYI STATE.

People of Ozizza in Afikpo area of Ebonyi state were thrown into a state of mourning following the “mysterious death” of a teacher and her four children during the Christmas holiday.

  Four children die with female teacher on Christmas day in Ebonyi state

Vanguard reports that the oldest child was aged six while the last was six months old.

The teacher identified as Mrs. Faith Ejim- Egwu, was said to have been recently posted to Unity Secondary School in the area.

It was gathered that she was boiling something on Christmas eve at about 7.30 pm when she took the last child to bathe her while the other three children were asleep.

She was said to have noticed that the fire on the stove was low and went into the kitchen of her two- room apartment with the child she was bathing to ascertain the problem.

According to police sources, it was in the process of ascertaining the problem that the stove exploded and fire engulfed the whole kitchen.

The woman tried to open the kitchen and escape with her child but the door could not open the jammed lock” had stiffened.

People who saw the fire could also not open the kitchen as it had spread to the whole house and burnt the three children who were sleeping in their room beyond recognition.

When the kitchen door was eventually forced open, both the mother and the little child had become unconscious but were rushed to a nearby hospital which was unable to treat them.

They were taken to a second hospital where she managed to say few words before dying on the Christmas day. Three hours later her six-month- old child died. Her husband who rushed home from his own location collapsed on arrival but was later revived.

Emma Anyim, a neighbor, confirmed the incident and attributed “the strange deaths” to spiritual attack.

Meanwhile, a woman has stabbed her husband to death in the Ikorodu area of Lagos state because he did not provide Christmas money for the family, Daily Post reports.

The woman, identified as Iya Bose, committed the crime in Majidun Awori area of Lagos state on Christmas Day.

The state's police spokesperson Dolapo Badmos confirmed the incident, saying the woman who has since been arrested will be charged to court as soon as the investigation is completed.