A five-month-old baby was on Monday burnt to death
after fire engulfed a one-storey building in Agbado-Oke Odo Local Council
Development Area, LCDA, Lagos State.
According to Vanguard, the inferno that engulfed the building at 28 Adeyoola Street, Kola Bus Stop, started at about 12:10p.m., yesterday, when many of the occupants had left for work.
Eyewitness blamed the mother, saying the incident was as a
result of carelessness on the part of the baby’s mother, who was cooking inside
her room at the right wing of the house. It was learned that the baby, who was
already asleep, was left in the room by her mother before the fire that razed
the top floor of the building started.
Residents narrated that the mother left the room without
putting off the stove, which later caught fire that engulfed the room, burning
the baby to death. Aside the baby, eight rooms were also razed by the inferno,
destroying property worth millions of Naira.
The fire would have escalated to other building, but for the
combined intervention of emergency responders, including Lagos State Fire Service
and the State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, that salvaged over 15 rooms.
It was learned that the deceased baby’s corpse was recovered
and handed over to the Policemen from Alakuko Police Station.
Confirming the tragedy, Director of the State Fire Service,
Rasak Fadipe, urged residents to desist from cooking in their rooms.
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