Pregnant Woman Dies After Falling Into Pits Twice In A Week

The look on his face said it all, and it was a look with many emotions rolled up in one.

Each of his words was laced with a deep sense of grief, despair, and confusion; he had lost his woman and his first son in one day.

Buchi Eze, 30, stood awkwardly on the edge of the pit, where his woman, Blessing, had fallen to her death. She was 23 years old and was eight months pregnant.

Perhaps, Eze’s confusion overrode other emotions as he told his story because only a day before, Blessing had just returned home from a hospital, where she was on admission for four days after falling inside a pit beside the one in which she had taken her last fall.

One Year Old-Child Falls & Dies In Uncovered Soakaway Pit

There was confusion at 36, Damilola Morounfolu Street, Orisumbare, Akowonjo area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, when a year old baby fell into an uncovered sewage pit and died.

The victim, little Alimat Adetunji, was said to have been playing near her mother while Mrs. Bilikisu Adetunji, her mother, was washing clothes.

Speaking with P.M.NEWS, the father of the deceased, Mr. Adetunji Obakayeja, said: “I was away when I was called and informed that our daughter was missing.

“While we were searching for her, they brought my daughter back to me dead and I was informed that she fell and died inside a sewage pit beside our compound.”
“I was inside our compound washing with my baby. I discovered that the cloth she was putting was wet and I quickly went inside to get another cloth for her. Before I came out of the room, I couldn’t find her any longer.“I went round the street in search of my daughter only for my child to be brought to me lifeless by a neighbour identified as Bolaji Adejobi.