Niger Illegal Miners: Detainees drank urine, sweat in NSCDC cell before 33 died – Report.
There was also “no drinking water”, except from relatives.
The toilet was also “non-functional The post Niger Illegal Miners: Detainees drank urine, sweat in NSCDC cell before 33 died – Report appeared first on Vanguard News .
Details have emerged of how alleged illegal miners held in a cell at the Niger State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) drank urine or sweat because they had no access to drinking water before 33 of them died.
The report quoted survivors as describing how they experienced extreme heat, dehydration and overcrowding, while they were unable to move freely inside the approximately 12-square-metre cell. The Jonathan Kure-led 10-member committee authenticated 33 deaths occuring inside the male cell between 8 p.m. The committee said the detainees had no drinking water, while officers ignored warnings about overcrowding and the risk of suffocation. According to the copy of the report obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, the deceased persons included 14 minors.
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