The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has confirmed the death of a former ExxonMobil staff in Villa Marina Hotels and also its personnel in Tevoli Hotels in Eket.

The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Timfon John, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Eket, Akwa Ibom.

She said the contractor to the multinational oil company died on Sunday while the police officer died on Oct. 14.

John however could not disclose to NAN the names of the victims at the time of filing this report.

“The former ExxonMobil staff died at the Hotel in Eket, he died as a result of slipping when he came out from the bathroom and fell and hit his head on the tiles,” John said.

John said that necessary investigation had been done and the police have released the corpse to the family for burial.

She said that the police officer who came from Lagos to Eket on an official assignment died of heart failure.

(NAN)