A collapsed overhead water storage tank has crushed a 34-year-old lady, Joy Amadi, to death in Benin, Edo State capital.

A correspondent who visited the incident scene said the family of the deceased, who recently completed her NYSC service, has been plunged into grief.

The deceased was said to have been in her room when the tank erected in a neighbour’s new building collapsed, penetrating the roofing sheet and crushing her to death.

It was gathered that the incident occurred on August 4 on Enagbare Street, off Lucky Street in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo.

In an interview on Friday, Beatrice Amadi, the deceased mother, said her daughter was inside helping her to shell melon when the tragedy struck.

The mother said the deceased, a teacher at a private school in the area, did not go to work because she had free periods throughout the day.

The deceased father, Michael Amadi, said he was at work when he received a distressed call.

Meanwhile, sources who spoke with journalists blamed the incident on a shoddy job by the engineer handling the project.

The sources said the neighbour’s new house belonged to somebody who lived abroad.

However, Mr Amadi said the police had arrested the site engineer while his daughter’s corpse had been deposited at an undisclosed morgue.

When contacted, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, public relations officer of the Edo Police Command, said he was yet to be briefed. 

(NAN)