Early morning inferno burns six persons to death in Plateau

No fewer than six persons have lost their lives in a fire incident which razed down a storey-building in Jos, Plateau State.
The incident happened in the wee hours of Saturday.
The fire was said to have started around 2 am immediately after electricity was restored.

 

The victims are 26-year old Habiba Ahmed, her three children, Dalhatu, aged 6, Maryam 4 and one-year-old Fawaz. Others are Habiba’s sister, Rukayat 12 and a maid, named Maryam aged 13.

The victims were said to have died of suffocation as they could not escape from the raging inferno.
They were given mass burial at the Zaria Road cemetery at about 12 noon on Saturday.
According to eyewitness, the man of the house, Ahmed, was said to have left his family at about 4 pm on Friday for a short trip to their home town of Lafia in Nasarawa State.

 

However, he was called by his landlord, Umar Dauda, immediately the incident occurred.
He said, “I was told that the victims shouted for help, but nobody came to alert us until the sound of the explosion.”
Sobbing Ahmed, who spoke at the burial site at the Zaria Road cemetery said, “I was playing with them till 4 am yesterday (Friday) before I left for Lafia. Now I have lost everything”.
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