Man and women die from ‘overpowering fumes’ after jumping into cesspit to retrieve ‘expensive phone’

Woman had dropped her device – worth 2,000 yuan (£190) – in the open-pit

Her husband jumped in to try to find the phone but was overcome by fumes



His mother tried to help but also suffered the same fate

Villagers in Xinxiang, central China, used ropes to retrieve them from tank



A mother and his mother have died trying to retrieve a new mobile phone from a toilet septic tank in China .

The man's new wife had dropped her device – worth 2,000 yuan (£190) – in the open-pit toilet, reported Dahe, a website run by the Henan provincial government.

Her husband jumped in to try to find the phone but was overcome by fumes and passed out, it said.

A man and his mother have died trying to retrieve his wife's new mobile phone from a toilet septic tank in China. Pictured: The villager whose wife and son died

His mother went in to the cesspit to try to help her son, but also fainted. RELATED ARTICLES Previous

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Two neighbours then entered the tank and also became ill. The woman had dropped her device ¿ worth 2,000 yuan (£190) ¿ in the open-pit toilet, reported Dahe, a website run by the Henan provincial government. Pictured, the woman's husband

Online images showed the tank to be accessed via a brick-built hole measuring one metre square

Villagers in Xinxiang, in central China, used ropes to retrieve the six people from the tank.

Online images showed the tank to be accessed via a brick-built hole measuring one metre square.



'In five minutes, two lives have gone and my daughter-in-law is unconscious, leaving a half-paralysed elderly man and a one-year-old grandson,' the husband's distraught uncle said, according to Dahe.

