By Ike Uchechukwu
Tragedy struck over the weekend in Ikot Awatin community, Calabar municipality, Cross River State as torrential rain triggered a landslide, killing four siblings
The tragic incident occurred just three days after floodwaters claimed the life of a one-year-old child and destroyed property worth millions of naira along Mayne Avenue by Atu Street in Calabar South Local Government Area.
The deceased siblings, identified as Bright Kingsley Edu, 18; Godswill Kingsley Edu, 12; Daniel Kingsley Edu, 11; and Richard Kingsley Edu, 10, sons and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley Edu were buried alive alongside a man identified only as Mr. Udo, a tanker driver attached to a fuel depot. By the time community youths, working through the night with bare hands and shovels, finished digging through the rubble; all five victims were recovered dead.
A mother’s grief
