Wedding From Hell: Groom and 5 Guests Die Foaming At The Mouth After Ceremony

A groom and five guests have died after attending a wedding in Nigeria, while the bride and seven others are being treated in hospital.14 attendees of the wedding, including the newlyweds, were found unconscious at a relative's home with a "foam-like discharge" surrounding their mouths. All victims were rushed to the hospital however the groom and five guests were pronounced dead.

Obinna Dieke, 33, and his wife Nebechi were married on Friday at a ceremony attended by their friends and family near the city of Enugu, southern Nigeria.

The cause of death is currently unknown but locals who were around the wedding have suggested that it may be because of a faulty power generator that was brought into their home which could have caused carbon dioxide poisoning

Police said that an autopsy will be conducted on the six victims to determine the cause of their deaths.

The newly married couple and their guests had returned to their family home after the wedding for a party.

Police spokesman Daniel Ndukwe told a Nigerian news outletthat when none of the wedding guests emerged from the house the morning after, neighbours were forced to break the door down to check their safety; where the guests were all found with the discharge around their mouths.

'They were immediately all taken to the most local hospital, where six of them were confirmed dead while the others are responding to treatment,' Policeman Ndukwe stated.

A leader who wishes to not be named has said that he believes that they died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a portable power generator which they brought into their house due to a flurry of rain hitting the village.'It was raining and there was a generator outside,' the community leader said.

Warnings which come with the generators say "Portable generators generate deadly carbon monoxide gas and therefore must never be used indoors or placed too close to a house."

'They brought the generator inside the corridor. So, since they were drinking and didn't know the implication of bringing the generator in the corridor, and then they slept,' he added.

'I think maybe carbon monoxide filled the whole room. It was people that went there to greet them in the morning that broke the door and saw them all unconscious,' he said.

The police have since launched their investigation into the wedding incident and hope to find a plausible cause.