Tragedy struck in Minna, the Niger State capital, on Monday when a 58-year-old woman, Mrs. Esther Abubakar, died after waiting for several hours on queue at a filling station.<\/p>\n
Our correspondent gathered that Abubakar, who until her death was a worker with the state\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Ministry of Health was in the queue for about four hours at a filling station at the Western Bye Pass in Minna.<\/p>\n
It was learnt that she subsequently left for another filling station to procure fuel meant for her Honda Civic car when she met her death.<\/p>\n
According to an eye-witness, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cAfter purchasing the fuel, she stretched her hand from inside the car to pay the dealer and slumped with her seat belt on.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n
Passersby who were able to identify the woman, believed to be a younger sister of Dr. Lucas Bahago, a Special Adviser on Health to Governor Babangida Aliyu, went to her residence to inform the family members of the development.<\/p>\n
The deceased\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s nephew, one Hunpani Bahago, who was the first family member to get to the scene said, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cNobody touched her, as her seat belt was strapped round her when I got there: I called her: Mummy, Mummy, but she couldn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t respond.<\/p>\n
\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cPeople were just standing around, nobody, probably out of fear or shock get closer to her. So, I had to remove the seat belt from her and with other family members who later joined me and drove her home.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n
He said the family doctor was immediately invited and after medical examination certified her dead.<\/p>\n
Bahago said that the remains of the deceased, who was survived by four children and husband, had been deposited at the mortuary of the Minna General Hospital.<\/p>\n
By Punch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n