A Kerosene dealer at No. 35 Isiekenesi street, Aba, Abia
State on 14thDecember, 2016 was allegedly mixing the product with another
substance in one of the rooms in the building, when it exploded and consumed
the entire seven room apartment.
Property worth over N10 million were claimed to have
been lost in the inferno which occurred by 5.45am when most
residents of the building were yet to wake up from their sleep.
An eyewitness told South East Voice that residents of the building could not evacuate their properties due to the intensity of the fire, even as several attempts by sympathizers to quench the fire were unsuccessful.
A group of irate youths of the area had attacked men
of the Abia State Fire Service who raced to the scene when the fire had
wrecked the building.
Narrating his ordeal, a resident; who gave his name as Ede,
said, “I was woken up by an alarm raised by neighbours that the building was on
fire, but I ran out to save my head, and could not evacuate any
property as all I had laboured for life was consumed in the inferno.
“I don’t know the cause of the fire because there was no
electricity supply. What I was told was that one of our neighbours who deal on
Kerosene was mixing it with another substance when it exploded and burst into
fire which rent the whole apartment. We called the Fire Service People but
before they arrived, fire had destroyed the building.”
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