Sunday, 4 May 2014

Shocking: 4 drowns in a well while trying to bring out their fetching bucket

First of all, I am sure the question you will be asking right now is  who goes into a well to bring out a bucket??? Well I have been in that situation before  not just once but twice. I went to my uncle's house in ibadan then for the long term holiday I was say 8 or 9, And there were these cute older guys like say 13 or 14 sha that will always come to fetch water and that faithful day I just wanted to impress that I could fetch the water from the well too and I just threw the rope in and smiled until I couldn't even find the other end of the rope which was by this time swimming inside the well with the rest of the fetching can. 

Before I knew what was happening, the guy jumped into the well and started making for the deep end of it. What what what are you doing?? He said they do it all the time, the well had steps inside the rounds used to feel it but still it was very risky because the the steps were wet, the guy survived it but 4 people who tried to bring back their fetching bucket from a deep well recently didn't make it, sighs read how vanguard is reporting the news when you continue: 


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 neighbor 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 ".
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 .

3 comments:

  1. oh what a sad story.racheal uzu

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  2. speechless.......kwase

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  3. ♍Ȋ̝̊̅§§ Morgan4 May 2014 at 05:02

    So Sorry

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