Grandma to the rescue as hawk attempts to carry 4-day-old baby in Abia
A tragic incident was averted, when a grandmother, Adeline Emmanuel prevented a four-day-old baby from being carried away by a hawk.
Emmanuel who confirmed the report, said the incident happened at Umuohu Okpula, Ndume community, Ibeku in Umuahia North Local Government area of Abia State.
The vigilante grandmother explained that she was lying down, when she heard the loud flapping of the bird’s wings.
According to her, she heard noise of a struggling object as the bird was trying to fly through the window, but fell down on the floor of the one-storey building, prompting her to shout at her daughter, mother of the baby, to shut the window.
She said: “I saw the hawk drop down where my four-day-old granddaughter was sleeping and was trying to carry the baby who was probably too heavy for it.
“It was then that I started shouting, asking my daughter to close the windows.
“My shouting and that of my daughter coupled with others, who were by then aware of what was happening, attracted the community youths.”
She said the youths were able to catch the hawk and break its legs and wings.
Giving her own account of the incident, the mother of the infant, Joy Emmanuel said she was outside when her mother-in-law’s shouting made her rush in, only to be confronted with the unusual sight.
According to her, it was only the grace of God that made her to survive the shock, as she had never seen such an incident in all her life.
