After two of her children were electrocuted in Mushin, Lagos State, a mother is receiving medical attention in a hospital.
On Thursday, September 26, a 10-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy were electrocuted while attempting to turn on the television after coming home from school.
According to reports, the mother of the deceased children fainted when she learned of their deaths; she is currently being treated at a hospital.
A resident of the area named Toyosi told Punch: “I heard that it was after school on Thursday, the girl was trying to turn on the TV from the socket when she got electrocuted. Without even knowing what had happened to his older sister, the younger boy went to touch her, he too got electrocuted.
“They stayed at that spot until the light was taken and then they fell. I heard the woman is still at the hospital. She has yet to recover from the shock. We heard that when people went to visit her, she couldn’t talk, she couldn’t cry, she just sat at a spot, looking.”
Another resident of the area, who didn’t give her name, disclosed that the mother of the children had a third child she was breastfeeding when the two older ones passed on.
