An early morning inferno, on Wednesday, claimed the life of a 30-year-old woman, simply identified as Nnena, in Tudun Kauri, Lafia, Nasarawa State.
that the woman was burnt to death in a four-bedroom flat as a result of the fire outbreak.
The eyewitness also said that the fire, which occurred due to electric surge when the AEDC supplied power, also destroyed property worth millions of naira. The witness noted that men of fire service were able to rescue the parents of the deceased through the window, but could not control the fire which consumed Nnena, said to be a university graduate.
When contacted, Alhaji Dogara Dalhatu, the Chief Fire Officer in the state, confirmed the incident but said the cause of the inferno had yet to be ascertained. “For now, we cannot say this is the immediate or remote cause of the fire. We are still working on that.“Anytime we go for rescue operations during a fire outbreak, our first priority is to save lives,” Dalhatu said.
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