Edea: Drunk man dies after falling in a water tank

A man of age 70 after haven taken of few bottles of beer fell in a water tank owned by a water distribution company. This man had missed his steps just next to this water tank while going back home and unfortunately for him, fell inside this water tank. There was nobody at the scene who could have rescued the age man and the cold hands of death took him away. It was until the next morning that his body was discovered inside the water tank and the fire fighting unit were called in to remove the body from the tank and taken to the Edea district hospital mortuary.

This tank had been accidentally hit by a car and it has not been repaired since then and no one saw it as a danger to the passing population since it was just next to the pedestrian path along the road.

A witness whom we got his name as Mr Nyobe says “This man’s death is just as a result of carelessness on the part of the Council, this are all issues the council would have taken action to get the company fix the water tank. But it is rather unfortunate that such issues come up only when there is a victim and that is how the authorities have made us belief it is the procedure. But we hope this will change one day”.