Ifunanya Nwangene, a contestant on The Voice Nigeria, has died at 26. Authorities believe the young singer was bitten by a cobra Saturday night while she was asleep in her bedroom in Abuja, Nigeria. After the bite, she was first taken to a nearby clinic, but they did not have the required anti-venom in stock. She was then taken to a hospital that had only one of the required antivenoms. She passed away while her friend Sam Ezugwu was trying to find the second anti-venom. “While they were trying to stabilize her, she could not speak, but she could make hand gestures. She was struggling to breathe,” Ezugwu said. Nwangene was part of Season 3 of The Voice Nigeria, and her talent advanced her to the knockout rounds. She had big plans for after her tenure on the singing competition, including a solo concert and a project with Nigerian trumpeter Tbrass. Tbrass called her death “an irreplaceable loss to the Abuja music society and Nigeria at large,” adding that the singer “was a true artist who left an irreplaceable mark.”
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