Two Nigerian nationals were burnt to death under mysterious circumstances at their rented house in north Delhi’s Burari area in India, police said on Tuesday, February 27, 2024.
According to the India Today,
the incident happened when the victims and two of their women friends were
making drug paraphernalia.
The explosion occurred when a
chemical was added to the drug, resulting in the house being engulfed in fire,
the publication reported.
One of them was identified as
Christian Ifeanyichukwu, but the other deceased is yet to be identified, police
said.
Police said two women, Kristen
and Kambri, along with the victims had come to live in a house on rent on
February 10, 2024.
The visas of Kristen and Kambri
had expired in December last year.
The victims were admitted to
AIIMS by a group of people, who were stated to be their friends, on February
23. But the friends fled after leaving them in the hospital, a police officer
was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.
Investigation revealed that the
owner of the house, Nafees, had a house in Bengali Colony and a Nigerian got
the victims to meet Nafees, who gave him the house on rent in Burari, which is
situated in a deserted place.
The police registered a case of
negligent death and began investigating the matter.
The police were scanning the
CCTV footage of the incident and informed the Nigerian Embassy about it.
The bodies have been sent for
post-mortem.
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