Four Men Drown Consecutively Inside Well

    It has been a sad moment for some residents of Ogoja in
    Cross River state when three of their neighbours and landlord drowned respectively
    in a well located inside their compound as they tried to retrieve a bucket
    which fell into the well. Some of their neighbours have said it’s spiritual and
    they believe a force was behind it. The story;
    One after another, four men entered a water well and drowned
    while trying to retrieve a bucket when the string cut letting the bucket to
    sink to the bottom of the well. The incident, which happened along Ogoja Road, Ikom in the
    Central Senatorial District of Cross River State, attracted sympathisers some
    of them attributing the tragedy to a spiritual force.

    The first person to enter the well, John Ushie, according to
    a resident of the compound who gave her name as Janet, was preparing to go
    to  work 
    that morning and wanted to take his bath. Ushie decided to fetch water
    from the well but the string with which the bucket he was drawing the water
    fell inside the well. When the string gave way, he decided to retrieve it by
    jumping into the well but ended up gulping water and drowned.
    His brother, Boniface, who had left the house for  his shop at the Ikom Main Market, was alerted
    on phone what had happened. He rushed down on Okada and jumped into the well to
    rescue his brother but also downed in the process.
    When Boniface could not come out, another neighbour jumped
    in to try to rescue the two brothers inside the well. He too drowned.
    According to Janet, when the landlord of the compound, Eyung
    Ebam, saw what had happened, he jumped into the well to rescue the drowned men and
    he too drowned. “It was at this point that nobody was willing to get into the
    well and the National Drug Law Enforcement, NDLEA, officials who were mounting
    a road block close to the house called the Fire Service and they arrived soon
    ”, the eye witness told Sunday Vanguard.
    She explained that when the Fire Service men arrived, one of
    them jumped into the well with a rope with which he tied the landlord who was
    the last person to drown in order to pull him out. “He tied the rope around his
    chest region and gradually his colleagues dragged him out but when he got close
    to the point they wanted to grab him and pull him out, the rope slipped and he
    went down again hitting the others inside which may have eventually killed
    everyone inside,” the neighbour said.

    The four bodies were pulled out by the Fire Service men and
    taken to County Hospital, Ikom Four Corners and the victims confirmed dead by
    Dr. Ukwam, the medical doctor, there. An official of the Cross River State Fire
    Service,  Ikom, Mt Linus Ework, said he
    got a distress  call at about 7 am and he
    and his men rushed to the scene to rescue the victims but “it was unfortunate
    that it was a little too late as three of them were pulled out dead”.

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