‘The Voice Nigeria’ contestant Ifunanya Nwangene dies after being bitten by snake'


Ifunanya Nwangene, a budding singer who captivated audiences with her perfo
rmance of Rihanna’s “Take a Bow” on “The Voice Nigeria,” has died from a snake bite. She was 26.

The incident occurred at her home in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Saturday when she was bitten on the wrist by a cobra while sleeping, according to Sam Ezugwu, the leader of the Amemuso Choir, of which she was a member.

Footage circulating on social media shows a snake handler removing a medium-sized snake from her apartment. Two snakes were extracted in total, Ezugwu said.


“She died in my hands,” said her closest friend, Paschal Nworgu.


Nworgu told CNN he was by her bedside at the hospital she visited after a nearby clinic, where she’d initially sought treatment, informed her that they had no antivenom.


Nworgu said that he’d arrived at the hospital, Federal Medical Center, Jabi, with Ezugwu at around noon on Saturday, two hours after receiving a WhatsApp message from Nwangene informing him that a snake had bitten her.


Upon their arrival, Nworgu said, they’d met her gasping for breath as doctors tried to stabilize her. “She was not talking. She was only giving hand gestures,” Nworgu
said.

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