A
7-year-old boy was burnt to death in an inferno that engulfed a two-storey
building at the Lagos State Property Development Corporation Housing Estate,
popularly called the Ijaiye Low Cost Housing Estate, Agege Local Government,
Lagos.
According
to the Vanguard, the deceased identified simply as Sulaimon, was said to be sleeping
with five other members of the family at block 68, flat 5/6, of the housing
estate, when the fire started.
The cause
of the fire was yet to be ascertained, but eyewitness said that it started at
about 2:20 a.m, from the victims’ apartment before spreading to other flats.
Sources
said effort by the deceased, who came to spend the holiday with the family, to
escape with others proved abortive, as the house was already engulfed before he
woke up.
Other
family members trying to escape from the building sustained varying degrees of
injury and have been admitted at the Blue Cross hospital, Ogba, Ikeja.
Confirming
the development, the Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe
said that was one of the distress calls they received and attended to in the
state at the weekend.
Fadipe
explained; “We received the distress call at about 2:20 am. And immediately
the fire truck in Agege was dispersed to the scene to put out the fire.
“When we
arrived at the scene, we realised that the occupants of the building were
sleeping when the fire started. At this time, they were trapped. We had to
break the wall to rescue them.
“We were
able to rescue the family of five from the building but one of them was already
dead. A boy of about seven years.
Tragic. To think this happened close to where i stay and i wasnt aware.
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