Pensive is the mood of residents of Awe Street in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, following a fire that engulfed an entire building and claimed the life of a three months old baby girl last Monday. Although everyone seemed to be going about their business, it was glaring that all was not well since the incident.

The day had started normally until about 10:30am when one of the children in the compound noticed thick smoke coming from the inner room of one of the apartments at Number 6, Awe Street. sleekgist.com

“When the young boy saw the smoke, he quickly alerted one of the women in the compound who turned and saw the fire and then raised the alarm,” a neighbour, who gave her name as Hassana Ayuba, said.

She explained further that, by the time neighbours mobilised to the compound to help put out the inferno, it was too late, as the fire had spread to all the eight rooms of the building. sleekgist

Ayuba said, while neighbours were trying to see how they could recover some of the belongings of the tenants, to no avail, nobody remembered that the little baby was asleep on the .....https://sleekgist.com/how-16-year-old-mother-lost-3-month-old-daughter-in-mysterious-fire/