Three offspring of same guardians, Mr and Mrs Michael Anor were on Saturday night consumed in a fire incident that occurred in Awka, Anambra State.

FOJUSI discovered that the fire which broke out in a private structure began in one of the flats after a jar of lamp oil that was at the rear of a refrigerator detonated.

The fire got the three children who were in the flat, however they were in the end saved with differing degrees of injury by firemen who put off the fire after they were alarmed by neighbours.

In the interim, it was assembled that one of the children passed on Sunday morning from the injury sustained from the fire, while the other two have been moved to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital, Awka for treatment.

Mr Martin Agbili, the main fireman in Anambra State who affirmed the fire stated, “We received a distress call of fire outbreak at Brave-Heart Flats at the 1st floor of a 3-storeyed building, opposite Marian Plaza, Close to St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, Iyiagu Estate Awka.

“We deployed our firefighters and two fire trucks to the scene. We put off the fire, and no life was lost, but three children in the flat were burnt and were rushed to the Prime Specialist Hospital at Awka.

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