Three Children of same parents were in the early hours of Saturday burnt to death in an early morning inferno at Orisunbare Street, Eyin Grammar in Ibadan.
The children were identified as Glory,(14); Samuel, (8) and Darasimi,(3).
Blueprint learnt the children were sleeping when the fire broke out and were locked in the room by their parents before leaving home that night for their respective duties.
According to the source, the fire started at around 1 am and the night guard in the area on sighting the flames of the fire raised alarm and other residents came out to safe the situation but to avail .
Narrating his experience, one of the residents in the building whose room and property were burnt in the fire, identified as Adeola, said they were all fast sleeping when the incident occurred .
“We were all sleeping when the night guard called our attention to the fire incident from outside around few minutes to 1 a.m. We were shocked and we ran for safety only to realise that the children of Mr Tunde and Mrs Christianah Emmanuel; Glory, Samuel and the youngest Darasimi, were locked inside their room’, he said.
Continuing he said “ people made efforts to rescue them and somehow quench the fire with water. But this was not enough as the fire kept on ‘blaring’. Glory attempted to escape and possibly rescue his other siblings, but the door was locked from outside with a big padlock.”
“As much as neighbours attempted to rescue them, they were kept away by the the fire before things turned awry. The water we were trying to use seemed like fuelling it the more. The fire-fighters had difficulties getting here because most gates leading to this area had been locked. So, it was tasking getting here on time, though their efforts with two trucks of water eventually quenched it (fire).”
Contacted, Oyo State Police Command Public Relations Officer , (PPRO), SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, while confirming the incident, said “on 3rd January 2020, at the early hours, there was a fire incident at No 6, Orisunbare street, Eyin Grammar Ibadan where three children, Glory Emmanuel, female, aged 14 years; Samuel Emmanuel, male, aged eight years; and Darasimi Emmanuel, female, aged 3 years of the same mother were burnt to death in an eight-room apartment”.
SP Fadeyi stressed “the police have commenced investigation as to the cause of the fire incident.”
