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| The burnt BOVAS filling station |
Two
children of the same parents on Wednesday lost their lives in a fire incident
that razed a supermarket located within BOVAS filling station in Osogbo while
their mother also sustained serious injuries.
According
to a witness, there were three children inside the supermarket when the fire
started and two of them died in the inferno.
The
deceased were said to be children of the owner of the filling station and they
were brought home from their boarding school for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration.
A
witness Ojo Williams said “we suddenly saw the woman with fire on her body but
things had gone worse before the fire fighters arrived and their water was not
even enough to suppress the fire.”
The
mother of the children could only rescue one of the three children and the
remaining two got trapped and burnt to death inside the supermarket before the
arrival of the fire service. A black Toyota Corolla belonging to the woman was
also burnt.
The
Director of Osun State Fire Service, Michael Ogundipe explained that the fire
fighter responded immediately they received distress, got to the scene on time
and curtailed the fire from spreading further.
“We brought two vans to quench the fire. We
would have been here earlier but there was congestion on the road. When we
came, we met the fire burning but all our efforts were to no avail because
there is only one exit into the building. If there were more than one exit, the
people who died would have been saved”.
Ogundipe
confirmed that the two children that died include a boy and a girl and that the
cause of the fire outbreak was yet to be ascertained.
He
advised Nigerians to obey the fire safety codes by obtaining fire extinguisher
in order to prevent such tragedies related to the incident.
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