Inferno from candle light consumes 3 siblings in Lagos

Adekunle Sijuade |

A two-year-old girl, identified as Uzoma, and her two siblings, Ufoma, 9, and Emeka, 7, have been burnt to death after fire gutted a three-room boys quarter at Egbeda in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.

Hallmark learnt that the inferno consumed the three siblings, a male and two female, in their sleep while their father took their pregnant mother to the hospital.

A sympathiser told Halmark Newspaper that passers-by discovered the inferno and raised the alarm to alert residents, as majority of tenants in the house were yet to return from work.

“The inferno was caused by a candle lit by their father, who locked the three children in his apartment and left for the hospital, where his wife was receiving post-natal care,” he said.