Three siblings burnt to death in Lagos

LAGOS — A one and a half year old child with two of his
siblings were, weekend burnt to death in an inferno that
engulfed a building and a church in Iba Local Council
Development Area, LCDA, Lagos State, leaving property
worth millions of Naira destroyed.

Also, two unidentified dredgers got drowned in a 70-feet
domestic well in Ojo Local Government, Lagos.
The deceased siblings identified as Imoleayo, Ismaila who is
eight years old and Busayo Ganiyu, were said to have been
sleeping when the fire started.

The cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, but sources
said it started at about 9:30p.m., Friday, from the victims'
one-room apartment before spreading to other rooms.
According to reports, efforts by the sympathisers to put out
the fire proved abortive, as it later spread to the Cherubim and
Seraphim Church of Zion at 41, Ogunyemi Street, Sabo Ilaje,
Ajangbadi, Iba LCDA.

Sources said that the mother of the three siblings, a petty
trader, was still in shock over the death of her children.
Speaking to Vanguard, Adeyemi Ayinla, a friend to the late
Ismaila, said that his friend would have been alive if the
neighbours who raised the alarm saw the fire early enough.
According to him: "We couldn't get water early. And when
we called the emergency numbers: 767 and 112, there wasn't
any response. This I guess, was due to the network. Before we
could get water to extinguish the fire, they had already died."
A teacher in Sabo Oniba Primary School, Ajangbadi, Iba
LCDA, who spoke under condition of anonymity, said that
Ismaila was a primary three pupil.

He said: "I can't believe that he (Ismaila) is dead. He was in
school on Thursday, his mother also attended the Parents /
Teachers Association, PTA, meeting in the school that day."
Meantime, Vanguard gathered that the two men who died in a
well were in their late 40′s.

An eyewitness told our correspondent that the younger
dredger was the first to drown. Effort to rescue him by his
colleague proved unsuccessful and he also drowned.
Confirming this, the Director of the Lagos State Fire Service,
Mr. Rasak Fadipe who spoke to our correspondent said that
this was part of the four distress calls they received from Ojo
yesterday.

Fadipe said; AThat was one of the four distressed calls that
came in but they came late. And it came from

Via: Vanguard