The Imo State Police Command has confirmed the death of two yet-to-be-identified actors in Owerri, the state capital, after eating rice and drinking wine on Friday, April 18.
News broke out on Friday night that four actors were rushed to the Federal University Teaching Hospital Owerri, where two were pronounced de@d on arrival. The two deceased persons and others had, after shooting a movie, eaten rice and drunk wine that was provided by the unnamed movie director, during a house party.
Two of them were discovered de@d in the wee hours of Friday.
Leadership reports that a source, Kaito Karisia, had said the movie director who provided the meal and drinks was said to have gone to bed early, leaving the four actors and three ladies partying. He, however, woke up in the early hours of Friday to turn off the power generator and return to a public power supply to discover the two already dead and the other two gasping for their lives.
Karisia said the two other male survivors were responding to treatment at the Federal Teaching Hospital Owerri, where they were rushed to.
According to him, one of the survivors told him that, “Their host (the movie director) offered them rice and everybody ate. He later presented them with a bottle of Calypso and wine. But they only took a sip and never drank again. However, the two other guys who are now dead finished the drink”.
The movie director and the three girls in the apartment have been arrested and are answering questions, while the investigation continues.