Man and women die from ‘overpowering fumes’ after jumping into cesspit to retrieve ‘expensive phone’
- Woman had dropped her device – worth 2,000 yuan (£190) – in the open-pit
- Her husband jumped in to try to find the phone but was overcome by fumes
- His mother tried to help but also suffered the same fate
- Villagers in Xinxiang, central China, used ropes to retrieve them from tank
The man's new wife had dropped her device – worth 2,000 yuan (£190) – in the open-pit toilet, reported Dahe, a website run by the Henan provincial government.
Her husband jumped in to try to find the phone but was overcome by fumes and passed out, it said.
A man and his mother have died trying to retrieve his wife's new mobile phone from a toilet septic tank in China. Pictured: The villager whose wife and son died
His mother went in to the cesspit to try to help her son, but also fainted.
The woman who dropped the phone went in to help her husband and mother-in-law, but she also became ill as well as her father-in-law.
Two neighbours then entered the tank and also became ill.
The woman had dropped her device worth 2,000 yuan (£190) in the open-pit toilet, reported Dahe, a website run by the Henan provincial government. Pictured, the woman's husband
Online images showed the tank to be accessed via a brick-built hole measuring one metre square
Villagers in Xinxiang, in central China, used ropes to retrieve the six people from the tank.
Online images showed the tank to be accessed via a brick-built hole measuring one metre square.
'In five minutes, two lives have gone and my daughter-in-law is unconscious, leaving a half-paralysed elderly man and a one-year-old grandson,' the husband's distraught uncle said, according to Dahe.
'How are we supposed to go on?'
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