Tragedy struck on Monday at Osisioma, a suburb of Aba, the commercial capital of Abia State when four-year-old male twins, suffocated to death inside a car parked in front of their house. The boys, Chukwuemeka and Chiemela Okechukwu, the only male children of their parents and who were in nursery school at the Stella and Maris School in the city were with their mother,

Mrs. Ngozi Okechukwu in the morning hours on that fateful day as they could not go to school for undisclosed reasons. After a while, one of their pregnant neighbours went into labour and Mrs. Okechukwu who is a nurse, was called in for assistance. When the mother of the twins saw the condition of her pregnant neighbour, she arranged and took her to hospital and allowed the twins whose elder siblings went to school, to play with other children in the compound.

However, as the twins were playing, nobody knew when they left the compound and went to where some cars were displayed for sale beside the Enugu/Port Harcourt Expressway, near the Osisioma Junction. Daily Sun gathered that the two kids opened and entered one of the cars on display, unnoticed and locked themselves in under the heat of the scorching sun. When at about 1 pm the elder sisters came back from school and could not see their younger brothers who they knew did not go to school that day, they raised the alarm.

Their father, Levi Okechukwu Onwusoamaonye from Ahiaba Ubi in Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area, who had gone to work was alerted and he came home. A search party was said to have been immediately raised, which combed the area but to no avail. It was around 4 pm that the children were seen inside the car already dead through suffocation. They were rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors confirmed them dead. When Daily Sun visited the house of the late twins, people were seen in pensive mood discussing the incident.

Their mother, Mrs. Okechukwu, narrated how she was with the twins in the morning of that day before she took a pregnant neighbour who was in labour to the hospital. She said she was still at the hospital when her husband called to inform her that the two boys were dead and that she could not believe until she came back home and saw their corpses.

Mr. Okechukwu, the only male child of his parents who was short of words over the death of his own only two male children said he could only speak on the incident after the burial of the two kids that was slated for today. Meanwhile, the bodies of the twins had been deposited in a mortuary.

source http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/four-yr-old-twins-suffocate-to-death-inside-car-in-aba/

hmm! wot a tragedy and irony. She was busy saving the life of a woman and an unborn child yet she lost 2 of her own. Hmm, Life.

What a sad story

Money ritual things on my mind

Oh no, not again...when will sad news ever leave our ears?

Hmmm.... Nawar oo. But, where are the car sellers? How come they didn't notice anybody in d car and besides, why are cars on sale not locked with keys

Na wah O

Oh Lord, protect our children! So sad...

This story saddens!

How are we so sure they weren't kept in the car after they were killed!

Not again, whats happening to children in naija.God protect us

twins ? this is sad

ebamma: Money ritual things on my mind

De-mented cargo...shey na u use dem do rituals ni?

May God give the family the strength to carry on

irony of life.the lord protect the protect the gifts you have given us.amen

Hmmmmm, very pathetic.

RIP, LIL angels.

Artistree:
De-mented car-go...shey na u use dem do rituals ni?

uka ado demented cargo, adiok ono uka, ishie

God have mercy on your children ooo!
RIP.

This is sad

ebamma: Money ritual things on my mind

u're mad

They'll def rest in peace. But did any1 notice how d word "male" was used frequently

End shall never wonders, may God continue to protect and keep us from such calamity -Amen.
may God also comfort their family and rest the their souls in peace

Too many ghastly stories this month of young children dying tragic deaths. It's difficult to find any consolation for such tragedies, especially from the parents' point of view. However, the pessimistic fatalism of the philosopher Sophocles comes to mind. . . .

"Not to be born at all is best. But having been born, the next best thing by far, is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came".- Sophocles, (c. 496-406 B.C.)

i'm sure the kids are in a better place.

Imagine that

sureteeboy: Hmmm.... Nawar oo. But, where are the car sellers? How come they didn't notice anybody in d car and besides, why are cars on sale not locked with keys

i was about typing these same questions

East side

How did they open the car and lock themselves inside ? Do they have the key to the car ?

May their soul restin peace.

Not again!!!!!!! First two brothers in lagos., now twin brothers in aba. Na wah ooh. It like a serial killer. This kind of death need to be investigated ooh.

ItsModella: I don't get it. I read a similar story some weeks back where a child suffocated to death in a car. How do they get to these cars in the first place? Na so car dey attract person? and how can the mother just leave her kids to play with the other kids? nobody to supervise them, nothing at all? jor o!

RIP little ones.

4year old kids for dat matter,u no suppose even leave pry6 pikin alone, the mother na nonentity

jimihendrix: They'll def rest in peace. But did any1 notice how d word "male" was used frequently

I noticed that too like it could have been bearable if they were twin girls. All the same this is heart breaking,rip little angels