Two-year-old infants were yesterday burnt beyond recognition when fire gutted a house at Mafoluku area of Oshodi in Lagos.
This came three days after a seven-year-old child was burnt to death when fire gutted a building at the Ijaiye Low Cost Housing Estate, Ogba, Lagos.
It was learnt that the tragedy, which occurred at No. 43 Salami Street, Mafolokwu, around 20:43pm, was caused by a candle light which engulfed the entire two-bedroom flat.
It was gathered that when the Ikeja Disco cut off power supply to the area, the mother of one the burnt child, Mrs Ada Patrick, decided to provide light in the room with candlelight while the children were asleep.
She was said to have eventually slept off. It was also learnt that the candle burnt until the wax melted which later ignited fire and spread to the mattress and set the room and the storey-building ablaze.
The children, Joel Chukwu and Monardi Samuel, got burnt beyond recognition before the arrival of the fire service men from the Lagos State Fire Service. The second boy is the son of Ada Patrick’s her sister.
The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Razak Fadipe, who bemoaned the recurrent fire outbreaks, blamed the incident on poor safety culture. Fadipe said that if the agency had been called on time to put out the fire, perhaps the two infants would not have died in the disaster.
He said: “Lagosians must learn to be safety conscious. We responded to several fire calls last night but we got a distress call for Mofoluku incident around 20:43pm and when we got there, we discovered that it was a storey-building that was on fire.
The top floor has two-bedroom apartment and four single rooms, while the ground floor has two-bedroom and six single rooms.
They did not call us on time when the fire occurred.
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