In a very tragic outturn, a resident of Mushin area of Lagos State lost her two of her children to electrocution on Thursday.
The mother is also said to be is currently battling for her life at an undisclosed hospital due to shock resulting from the incident.
A sources in the area disclosed that the children, a girl aged 10 and a boy aged seven, were electrocuted when they attempted to turn on the television after returning from school.
The parents were said to have been away or inside the room when the incident occurred, on learning the fate of their children, were thrown into despair with the mother fainting and currently battling for her life at the hospital, according to Punch Metro.
Similarly, a resident of the area named Toyosi described the incident as a work of the devil.
She explained: “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.