Seven young men have reportedly lost their lives after inhaling the fumes from a power generating set inside a music studio.
The deceased persons were said to be to working in the recording studio located along Transformer Road in Amarata axis of Yenagoa, owned by one of them identified as Akpos Barakubo.
Residents of the area, who spoke to Leadership newspaper, said that the crew members in the studio were working into the midnight using their generating set due to poor public power supply in the state, but may have fallen asleep and forgot to switch off the generator.
It was gathered that six of them were later discovered dead in the morning, while one of the victims who was unconscious and rushed to the hospital later gave up the ghost.
According to sources, most of the deceased were undergraduate students of the Niger Delta University (NDU), Amasoma, Bayelsa State, who were into the music recording business to help themselves in school.
As at the time of filing this report, security operatives have cordoned off the area, while the corpses of the victims had been evacuated to the mortuary.