Tuesday, August 2o, 2024 - Four members of a family including the mother and three children have allegedly d!ed after eating rice in Ilọrin, the Kwara State capital.
The incident happened in the Oshin
area along Asa Dam road on Saturday, August 17, 2024.
All the victims have been buried according
to Islamic rites in what has been described as a suspected food poisoning.
The deceased children are Abibat,
Zainab and Abdulfatai said to be around 9, 7 and 5 years old respectively.
According to reports, the family prepared
rice for breakfast before the parents left the house on Saturday morning.
“In the evening, when they returned,
the mother was making preparation for dinner and instructed that the eldest
daughter who was sleeping should be woken up when they noticed she was cold and
gnashing her teeth," a source told Daily Trust
“She was rushed to Oreofe Hospital
where they were referred to Ilọrin General Hospital and then University of
Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) where she was pronounced dead."
However, they met the two other children
exhibiting the same symptoms when they brought their sister’s corpse and rushed
them to UITH.
"On Sunday, their mother also
started vomiting and was rushed to UITH where the three of them d!ed in the wee
hours of Monday. Their father has now been admitted also for a test having
eaten from rice the meal,” the source said.
On Monday night, the family’s
patriarch, Alhaji Jagunmolu Adinni, said sympathisers were still trooping in to
console the family over the incident.
Speaking on the incident, Alhaji Jagunmolu
Adinni said though the incident was tragic, he had accepted it as a trial from
Almighty Allah.
“The father is still in the hospital
left with only a son, Muhammad Basheer,” he added.
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