Two die in cesspit after woman drops her phone into toilet
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.
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.