An entire family of six managed to escape death after their
building in Okokomaiko area of Lagos went up in flames at the early hours of
Tuesday. The fire was reportedly caused by an explosion from a motorbike that
was parked inside the building.
A neighbour, identified as Mrs Oyinkansola, allegedly positioned
her cooking stove and a kerosene lantern (atukpa) near the motorbike, leading
to the explosion. It took the efforts of neighbours, who broke down the doors
to the house for the trapped tenants to escape, with some of them rushed to the
hospital.
Meanwhile, the landlord of the building and owner of the
burnt motorbike, Mr. Ishola Lukman, blamed Oyinkansola for the fire incident,
noting that she had been warned several times not to cook in the veranda.
"She purposely set my new bike on fire when she decided to
put her lantern very close to it. If she had cooked by the side of her
apartment the bike would not have burnt. I have been parking my bikes at that
same spot for long. This particular one is new and it is the third I have
bought. The fire would have been massive, but for the decking and swift
response of neighbours who came to our rescue."
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