LINUS Anyahuru said that his niece could not get his elder brother to pick up the phone calls that she
made to him, so he decided to pay his 78-year old brother a visit home.
Nothing prepared him for his latter encounter at his brother’s home: the brother, Sunday Anyahuru, his 56-year old wife, Elizabeth and a 35-year old daughter, Emilia, were all dead at in their home.
The deceased lived in their 2-bedroom apartment in Umuohiagu community of Ngor Okpala local government area of Imo state.
The late Sunday Okpara’s daughter, Mrs. Ugboaku Okorafor had contacted her uncle and brother to the deceased, Linus, after trying to reach her father with no luck.
On arriving his elder brother’s home, Anyahuru found the door locked, and proceeded force open the door, whereupon the bodies were found motionless.
Mrs. Okorofor said that she became apprehensive when his brother, Chijioke, who resides in Niger, alerted her that neither their parents nor their sister, picked any of his calls on Sunday.
The cause of the deaths and when they occurred are not clear yet, but the family of three were said to have taken their dinner, before they went to bed on Saturday.
The eyewitness said that policemen from Umuneke Police Station, Ngor Okpala, had deposited bodies in mortuary.
Meanwhile, the leader of the police team who visited the scene, Mr Thompson Ohakinam, has advised the people to remain calm, assuring that the incident would be investigated to get to the root of the matter.
He called on them to assist the police with valuable information to enable them to unravel the cause of the ugly incident.