A couple, Chukwudi Micheal and Bolani Micheal, have been thrown into mourning after losing four children to a f#re that gutted their two-room apartment on Tapa Road, Oke-Oko, Isawo, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
It is reported that the incident occurred around 1pm on Sunday, June 26, as one of the children, Jeremiah, 12, di#d on the spot. It was gathered that the couple were sleeping in their room with their eight-year-old surviving daughter, Esther, when the inferno stated in the room where the four boys slept.
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The three other siblings: Prayer, 18; Trust in God, 14; and Ebube, 10, sustained severe b¥rns and were rushed to a hospital, where they d#ex a few days later. The victims’ father, Chukwudi, said he woke up to the scream of one of his children, who was calling for help.
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He said, “After waking up, I alerted neighbours who helped me to break the windows of the boys because their door was locked. We were able to rescue three of the boys from the f#re, but one had already been b¥rnt to de@th. We rushed them immediately to a hospital with the help of a neighbour’s car, but we eventually lost them.”
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The 46-year-old noted that men of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service only came in the morning when the f#re had been put out by neighbours. However, the Public Education Officer of the state f#reservice, Amodu Shakiru, stated that the f#re was put out by firefighters, adding that five persons were rescued.
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The couple noted that they were oblivious to how the f#re started as anything that could start the fire had been put off. Both the husband and wife also sustained varying degrees of b¥rns, which they were treating at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.
