Mother's gallon of fuel explodes, kills her children

A mother lost two of her kids to fuel explosion at the Agegunle area of Lagos State at the weekend.

The explosion was said to have occurred at a resident in Ajegunle, where the two kids, one of them a polytechnic undergraduate were burnt to death.

Their mother, who was affected in the explosion, was rushed to hospital. Residents said that the woman’s husband immediately suffered stroke attack when she got the news about his wife and two kids.

According to residents the mother of the two kids, fondly called Mama Kehinde, used to sell fuel at Olowojuenjeje Street.

Mama Kehinde used to sell the fuel in jerry cans; in a shanty were they live. Close to where she sells, a lady was cooking. The heat from the stove caused the eruption. Flames engulfed Mama Kehinde, her two kids and the woman cooking.

The fire gutted the shanty and killed the two children. One of the kids, identified as Kehinde, was a polytechnic undergraduate.

A resident, Juliana Mmaduako, explained that Mama Kehinde was well known in the area for buying fuel in gallons, which she would later resell.

Mmaduako, who described selling of fuel in gallons, as dangerous, said: "Mama Kehinde’s shanty was gutted by the fire and it killed her two kids. The fire affected Mama Kehinde. She had been rushed to the hospital. The father of the children suffered stroke when he heard about the accident. I wept like other people when we saw what happened. The woman who was cooking was also rushed to hospital.”