Tears as Lagos couple loses four children to midnight fire
A Lagos based couple, Chukwudi Micheal and Bolani Micheal have been left in tears after four of their children perished in a fire that gutted their two-bedroom apartment on Tapa Road, Oke-Oko, Isawo, in the Ikorodu area of the State.
THECONSCIENCENG gathered that the couple was said to be sleeping in their room with their eight-year-old daughter when the inferno started in the room where the four boys slept.
Jeremiah, their 12-year-old son died on the spot while the three others, Prayer, 18; Trust in God, 14; and Ebube, 10, sustained severe fire burns and were rushed to a hospital, where they died a few days later.
“After waking up, I alerted neighbours who helped me to break the windows of the boys because their door was locked. We were able to rescue three of the boys from the fire, but one had already been burnt to death. We rushed them immediately to a hospital with the help of a neighbour’s car, but we eventually lost them.”their 46-year-old father told newsmen.
The mourning father noted that men of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service only came in the morning when the fire had been put out by neighbours.
However, the Public Education Officer of the state fire service, Amodu Shakiru, stated that the fire was put out by firefighters, adding that five persons were rescued.
“We rescued five persons and recovered the burnt body of a teenager.”he said
The grieving father also said he has no idea how the fire that wrecked havoc started.
