6 yr-old burnt to death in Lagos fire

A six-year-old boy was burnt to death in a fire
that engulfed a building in Iyana-Ifako area of
Gbagada Lagos, Tuesday night. The deceased, identified simply as Abbey, was
said to have been sleeping when the incident
occurred. Two of his elder brothers were said to have
been rescued by sympathisers. The fire
affected 10 rooms in the building located at 3,
Ogunde Street, off Somori, Iyana-Ifako. The cause of the fire, said to have started at
9p.m., could not be ascertained. While occupants of the buildings scampered
from their respective apartments for safety,
eyewitnesses said shouts for help from some
children in one of the rooms were heard. Some of the sympathisers said to have gone
for rescue mission, discovered that the door
was locked. One of the eyewitnesses said: “Their parents
locked them inside and went out. Nobody knew
where they went to. The door was forced
opened and two of them rescued, though one
of them was slightly burnt. “It was while they got outside that the rescued
children said their brother was still inside. By
then the fire had engulfed the whole building
and nobody could go in again.” The Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mr.
Rasaq Fadipe, said fire trucks from Ilupeju and
Ikeja responded to the distress call. He said the
charred remains of the six-year-old boy was
recovered.