It was a black Monday morning for residents of Denro in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State as they woke up to the wailing and mourning as a result of midnight windstorm, accompanied by heavy rains, wiped out a family of four in the area.
It was gathered that the head of the family, a popularly butcher at the local abattoir in the area, called Onimalu, was said to have made efforts to save his son and pregnant wife but none of his efforts did not yield and positive result as they all died.
An eyewitnesses, to Towncriernews that the heavy rains that was preceeded by a windstorm, caused the concrete fence beside the house of the family to give way and fell on the apartment the family occupied.
Besides, the eyewitnesses, disclosed that several others were injured in the same building have been rushed to different hospitals in the area..
On of the residents of the community, who gave his name simply as Toafeek, lamented the tragedy, saying the late Onimalu was an easy going person, who related well with both the young and the old.
He however, blamed tragedy on the owner of the house who according to him, built an extraordinary high concrete fence.
“The tragedy would have been averted but for the landlord who built such a high fence when residents of the area warned him about the fence. His response was he is protecting himself against armed robbers. By protecting himself, he has wiped out a whole family and injured several others, who we are not sure will survive”, Taofeek lamented.