IPNEWS – Monrovia: The Liberia National Police (LNP) has expressed its deepest condolences to the family members of eight Liberians, who died on Wednesday, February 25, 2021, in the Samuel K. Doe Community, behind the SKD Sports Complex in Paynesville.

Updating journalists at the Police headquarters on Thursday in Monrovia, Police Spokesman H. Moses Carter lamented on the tragedy of Nancy Miller, a graduate from the class of “Meni Nina” (Meaning “New Beginning” in the Kpelle Language) of the University of Liberia (UL) on Capitol Hill along with seven others.

On the cause of death of the victims, Cater told newsmen that it was associated with carbon monoxide inhabitation.

Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless and tasteless flammable gas that is slightly less than air but very poisonous and can kill within minutes.

He said the victims’ bodies were discovered during the morning hours.
“They were taken to the ELWA Hospital where they were pronounced dead after careful examination,” he disclosed.

The Police Spokesman lamented that, it is saddened and sympathetic to all those family members and sympathizers of these individuals who met their untimely demise, most especially to Ms. Miller, who graduated on Wednesday and died Thursday.

Carter named the victims, including Nancy Miller, graduate of UL, Favor Johnson, Angel Miller, Yah Miller, Sabah Kpaka and Varney G. Kamara with two unidentified victims. Two of the eight individuals were minors – ages 12 &16.
He furthered that, it is saddened to talk about eight Liberians whose death is a tragedy.

Meanwhile, the LNP is urging generator users to take necessary precautions when using their machines indoors.

Carter bewailed, “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not be at your homes to know whether individuals are in compliance where to put the generator or not. For your own safety, it is important that your generator should be mounted to where you are saved and not exposed to carbon monoxide.”

The LNP is appealing to citizens who are using generators to follow EPA standards. “Your generator must have a space where the smoke can get out when it is running.”

Eight persons died early Thursday morning, February 25, 2021, from a suspected generator smoke in a Paynesville community.

Residents said they woke up to the strange atmosphere of a locked up home of their neighbors who are usually out by 6 a.m.

According to Community residents, the family of the house held a graduation party for Nancy Miller and turned off all musical sets at around 10p.m.

The neighbors noticed that their now deceased neighbors’ generator was still on up to 10 a.m. Thursday morning and only became very concerned when the gentleman who has rented them the musical set had come to collect his balanced money.

Many Community residents who expressed shock over the death of the lady and her children including her mother, believed that they might have died from the generator smoke.

Police arrived to the scene taking the bodies for proper examinations.

Some bodies were discovered in the living room while others were seen lying in the floor in front of her bathroom and in the other rooms.

This is the first of it kind in the Community behind the SKD sports complex for entire family to be killed in such manner.