Overhead water tank crushes lady to death in Benin

34-year-old lady, Joy Amadi, has met her untimely death after an overhead water storage tank collapsed and crushed her death in Benin.

It was gathered that the lady who completed the compulsory National Youth Service was in her room when the tank erected in a neighbour’s new building carved in and penetrated the roofing sheet.

The incident, occurred on August 4 on Enagbare Street, off Lucky Street, in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo.

In an interview with NAN on Friday, Mrs Beatrice Amadi, the deceased’s mother, said her daughter was inside helping her to shell melon when the tragedy struck.

The deceased, who was a teacher at a private school in the area, the mother said, did not go to work because she had free periods throughout the day.

She described Joy as kind, humble and hardworking; she helped the family pay their house rent.

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