Tragedy struck on Thursday when seven members of the same family got
burnt in a midnight inferno at Anyamkor near Young Secondary School, Gboko,
Benue State.
The fire which ravaged four flats of two bedrooms each, started at
Mr. Lawani Oye’s flat around 11.40pm and burnt to death the husband, wife and
their five children.
Sources said as soon as the fire
started from Oye’s flat, his wife popularly known as Mama Tunde was said to
have raised the alarm, which prompted other neighbours to rush out of their
flats.
“We were jolted out of sleep with the shout from the neighbour’s flat as
Mama Tunde was shouting fire! fire!! fire!!!. It was her shout that woke us up
and we all rushed out of our flats without evacuating anything.”
The victims’ neighbour expressed grief that the same woman who raised
the alarm could not be saved as she and her family were burnt beyond
recognition.
The cause of the inferno is yet to be ascertained. The only clue was that the generator was
running in the night and by the time they went round after the fire they saw a
lantern near the generating set stated a neigbour.
It was gathered that the charred bodies of the deceased were left at
the premises of the General Hospital, Gboko.
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