Four children were lost in a fire that destroyed a couple’s two-room residence on Tapa Road, Oke-Oko, Isawo in the Ikorodu district of Lagos State, leaving Chukwudi and Bolani Michael inconsolable.
According to reports, the incident happened on Sunday, June 26, at 1pm, and one of the kids, Jeremiah, age 12, passed away immediately.
TRAGIC! Family Loses Four Members To Midnight Fire In Lagos
The other three siblings—Prayer, age 18, Trust in God, age 14, and Ebube, age 10—were severely burned and taken to the hospital, where they passed away a few days later.
It was learnt from the family that the husband and wife shared a room with their eight-year-old surviving daughter, Esther, that night.
The father of the victims, Chukwudi, in a report said that one of his children screamed for aid when he woke up.
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 fire, but one had already been burnt to death. We rushed them immediately to a hospital with the help of a neighbour’s car, but we eventually lost them.”
Amodu Shakiru, the state fire service’s public education officer, said that firefighters put out the fire and that five people were saved.
He said, “We rescued five persons and recovered the burnt body of a teenager.”
Nevertheless, a pastor with Covenant Light Church, Ikorodu, where the couple and their children worshipped, Ayoshanu Samuel, told Metro that the victims had been buried.
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