Blackberry phone sent 22-year-old student to untimely grave

… She was using her phone while charging the device, mum says
 Tears are still flowing in Okesa area of Ado-Ekiti, as the people continue to mourn the death of a 15-year-old boy, Cynthia Mba, in Okesa area of the Ekiti State capital. Cynthia was the second born of the Mba. His parents are popularly known as Iya Michaelo Shalloma's Blog learnt that tragedy struck in the home of the Mba on Friday, August 22, at about 8pm. On that day, Cynthia suddenly shouted for help, jolting his elder brother, Michael, into action. Cynthia had an electric shock while pinging with her Black Berry phone, as the handset was plugged into the wall socket, charging.After raising the alarm, Cynthia’s elder brother was said to have looked for a long stick with which he could remove the fone from Cynthia’s hand. It was gathered that when she could not have the fone removed, Michael also raised the alarm and that alerted other people, who promptly swung into action to rescue Cynthia.The BB was eventually removed from the power socket and Cynthia was rushed to a nearby hospital in the area, in a frantic effort to save his life. Unfortunately, the girl  passed on just before the rescue team stepped into the hospital. Narrating the ugly incident to the reporter at their two-room apartment in the area, Iya Michaelo, who could not control her emotions, said: “Cynthia had assisted me in cooking some rice for sale in my stand at Okesa market before i left home. But...
it was hardly two hours after I left that someone came running to me that Cynthia had been electrocuted. I immediately rushed to the scene and met people making frantic efforts to rescue her.
“We eventually removed the earpiece from her ears, unplugged the handset from the power socket and rushed her to the hospital. But she died just as we were about stepping into the hospital.
“I was told that Cynthia plucked the handset, which she also connected to the earpiece, into the power socket so as to charge the phone. She was also using the earpiece connected to the phone to listen to some music on the phone. “Some people said she slept off while listening to the music on the phone and charging the phone at the same time. They said it was while pinging  that she suddenly shouted for help, and when people rushed to her. she was already gasping for air.”
Iya Michaelo further said her daughter would have lived had he got help on time. She said: “If there had been elderly people around, apart from his elder brother who wasn’t clever enough to devise a better means of saving Cynthia, my daughter  might have survived the electrocution.”
She said she couldn’t say if Cynthia had been in the habit of pinging with her Blackberry phone while charging it. “I only know that she was an obedient daughter who didn’t get into trouble with anyone. She was also very dutiful; she never got tired of running errands in the house at anytime. Only God understands why this happened to her,” she lamented.