It was a sad Sunday around the student community of the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi as an afternoon fire gutted buildings housing some students and journalists at Gwallameji students village.

According to eyewitnesses, the incident started around 1:30pm when the fire started in one of the rooms at Tinubu Lodge before spreading to other rooms.

Reports say occupants and sympathizers tried everything possible to put the fire under control but failed.

One of the occupants of the lodge, a Journalist with the Nations Newspapers, David Adenuga narrated while narrating the incident said he lost everything he owned in the fire.

”It was like a dream, I could not believe that everything in my room has gone, I lost all my belongings to the fire”.

”There was no power supply at that time, we still don’t know the source of the fire. The fire affected nine rooms. It took the efforts of the fire service to put out the fire that already escalated to other blocks”.

Source: https://www.ogbeta.ng/2019/11/students-community-of-federal-poly.html

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Too bad, feel for the students..