Chidinma, the lone survivor of the Wednesday Lagos fire disaster that claimed a family of seven, is dead.
The eight-year-old girl died on Thursday
at the female section of the Trauma and Burns ward of the Gbagada
General Hospital, where she was rushed to after the disaster.
PUNCH Metro had reported that
seven family members lost their lives after the fire ravaged their
apartment on Michael Ogun Street, Obele Lawanson, in the Surulere area
of Lagos State.
They were said to have retired to bed on
Tuesday night when a fire, suspected to have been ignited by a candle
light, engulfed their room.
The grandma, Mrs. Anthonia Aleh, who had visited to nurse her daughter’s newly born child, was burnt to death.
The couple, 28-year-old Kelechi Onoja and
18-year-old Nkiru, and their two children ─ one-year-and-eight
month-old Favour, and a yet-to-be-named baby boy, were choked to death.
Two other family members ─ 12-year-old
Odinaka and 13-year-old Ukamaka ─ who followed the grandma from the
village in Enugu State, also perished in the fire.
The eighth person in the room, Chidinma,
was rescued inside the toilet by officials of the Federal Fire Service
with burns injuries.
Nkiru’s elder brother, Simeon Eze, said
Chidinma died on Thursday, adding that the death ended the family’s hope
of having someone to tell the story of what truly happened.
“She died on Thursday around 6am,” Eze said.
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