Five family members have been found dead at Amutenyi village in Obollo-Afor community, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State.
The incident which threw the community into mourning happened Saturday morning, and involved a woman, her two children, and two sisters, who visited her.
Anambra state police command in a statement on Sunday said that the victims had been deposited in the morgue for autopsy to unravel cause of their deaths.
The statement signed by the Command’s spokesman, Daniel Ndukwe, gave the names of the victims as “Mrs. Chinyere Odoh, her two children: Udochukwu Odoh ‘f’ aged seven and Chukwuemeka Odoh ‘m’ aged four, as well as her two sisters: Martina Ezeme and Ngozi Ezeme.”
He said that the State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani, described the incident as unfortunate and ordered the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department to conduct a full-scale investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the sudden and unnatural death.
