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Woman drops phone in cesspit, husband and mother-in-law dies in an effort to retrieve it

Written by : TNM

The News Minute| June 9 2014| Are you always glued to your cell phone? Do you experience uneasiness if you have to part with your phone, even if it is for just a while? Would you go to any lengths to retrieve it? If you fit in all the above questions, chances are you are a cell phone addict. And such addiction could result in dire circumstances.A woman in China, who dropped her brand new 2000 yuan worth phone into an open pit toilet, lost her husband and mother in law who tried to retrieve it, according to a report by Daily Mail.The woman’s husband went into the cesspit filled with knee deep filth, but fainted from the toxic fumes. His mother and wife were the next to go in, and they too fainted. Three more people including neighbours of the family were injured when they too descended into the cesspit in an attempt to rescue those stuck down.Villagers later pulled out all the six people from the cesspit with the help of ropes. Although all of them were taken to the hospital, the woman’s husband and mother-in-law died due to suffocation.

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