A couple, Mr. Prince McAnthony, and his wife, Oluchi, who died at their home in Bende, Abia State, where they had gone for the Yuletide holidays, is said to  have been  killed by generator fumes.

The revelation was made by Abia State Police Command yesterday. The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Nta Ogbonnaya, said that police investigations revealed that the couple was killed by fumes from a generator, which they left on close to their apartment.

The spokesman said Mr. McAnthony, an environmental health officer in Aba South Local Government Area and his wife, who also worked in the same department, inhaled the fume from the generator leading to their death.

However, reports from a close family source said that there was more to the death of the couple than the police report.

According to the source, the couple had been quarrelling over the man’s amorous relationship with a woman who also worked in the same department with the couple.

The source said the constant quarrels had led the man to abandon their rented apartment in Aba to stay in their village house in Bende, from where he went to work in Aba prior to the holiday.

He said that the woman over whom the couple quarrelled still visited him in his country home in Bende.

He further narrated that on December 10, the environmental health officer invited his wife to the village to collect school fees for their four children.

“That was the last anyone heard of them, until three days later when their corpses were discovered in their village home, bloated,” the source further said.