Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery has confirmed the death of one of its students, Lydia Dantata, who was a victim of a fire incident that started at a petrol filling station opposite its Kafanchan campus.
About 10 students of the school were caught in the fire which occurred at the petrol station where they had gone to charge their phones last Tuesday, May 18, NAN reports.
The students had gone to charge their phones at the filling station due to the state-wide power outage which followed the five-day warning strike embarked upon by Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) last week.
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Fire was said to have broken out when an extension box they tried to plug at the section provided for them to charge phones sparked fire at the time petrol was being discharged from a tanker.
Ephraim Dyages, the college’s campus overseer, said Dantata died around 3am at Jos University Teaching University (JUTH) where she was receiving treatment alongside another student after they sustained first degree burns.
Dyages expressed that five other students were still receiving treatment at General Hospital, Kafanchan, noting that the parents of three others requested to take their children elsewhere.
He told NAN;
Two students were taken to JUTH, and unfortunately we lost one of them and the others are at the General Hospital, Kafanchan. The cases of five students taken to the General Hospital, Kafanchan, can be managed there though their injuries were not minor.
Initially, there were eight students at the hospital, but the parents of three of them requested to take them elsewhere for treatment.
