Explosion Kills Two Kids, Four Others Sustains Burns Injury

A little boy and girl were burnt to death in an early morning inferno that engulfed a building at the Lekki Phase 1 area of Lagos State.

Aside from the death of the kids – ages, four and one – four other people sustained different degrees of burnt from the fire, which started around 5am.

The explosion was said to have started from the kitchen direction. One of the residents first noticed the fire and raised the alarm. The residents mobilized and rescued the occupants of the apartment. But nobody remembered the kids.

Their bodies were later recovered from under the bed where they had apparently taken cover when the fire started. Residents explained that the kids just came to stay with the owners of the apartment because of the school break and election.

The Director Lagos State Fire Services, Razaq Fadipe, and the South West Information Officer of the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the fire outbreak. The affected apartment belonged to the people who sustained burnt injuries, while the deceased boy and girl were guests.