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Two killed in China while retrieving phone from septic tank
AFP
May 30, 2014, 9:37 pm
Beijing (AFP) - A man and his mother both died trying to retrieve his wife's new mobile phone from a toilet septic tank in China, reports said on Friday, with four other people also entering the cesspit.
The woman dropped her new device -- worth 2,000 yuan ($320) -- in the open-pit toilet, reported Dahe, a web portal run by the Henan provincial government.
Her husband jumped in to try to locate the phone but was overcome by fumes and passed out, it said.
His mother went into the cesspit to try to help her son, but fainted herself, prompting the woman and then her father-in-law to enter in turn, the report said.
Two neighbours then followed the family into the septic tank, and were also overcome.
Villagers in Xinxiang, in central China, used ropes to retrieve the six people from the tank, which online images showed to be accessed via a metre-square brick-built hole.
The husband and mother-in-law both died, while the woman remained unconscious and the two neighbours were also ill, the report said.
"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 the web portal.
"How are we supposed to go on?"
The report did not specify whether the phone had been found.
A relative of the victims is overwhelmed with grief at the scene of the tragedy. Photo: sohu.com
Two people died and three were injured after wading into a cesspool's knee-deep filth in an attempt to retrieve a woman's mobile phone and rescue those who fainted.
The two fatalities were the woman's husband and mother-in-law, a local newspaper reported.
The tragedy unfolded after the young woman in Xinxiang city, Henan, accidentally dropped her brand new phone into a cesspit when she went to the open-pit toilet on Wednesday, according to local newspaper Dahe Daily.
Her husband jumped in to find the 2,000-yuan (HK$2,510) phone but he could not breathe and soon lost consciousness.
Then, the husband's mother jumped in to save him but she, too, soon lost consciousness. In panic, the young woman followed and suffered the same fate.
Seeing his family lying helpless in waste, her father-in-law called to neighbours for help.
When they arrived, the old man also entered the cesspit but could not get out while two neighbours who jumped inside fainted.
“The smell was too strong. I lost consciousness before I could see anything,” said a neighbour.
Other villagers found a rope and tied it on rescuers who, taking turns, pulled six people out of the pit.
The husband and mother-in-law died in hospital while the woman and a neighbour remained in the intensive care unit. The father-in-law was also injured.
The woman and her husband had a one-year-old son.
Villagers said the victims were in the pit – which was knee deep in waste –for no more than five minutes.
A hospital doctor said the victims suffocated.
Villagers said the dead victims had pulses after being pulled out but the ambulance did not arrive for more than an hour.
