Residents of Ogunleye Street, off Adekunle Kuye, Surulere, Lagos, were, yesterday, thrown into mourning after a couple and three children died in a fire that engulfed the shop they used as home.
Three other shops were also destroyed in the inferno. The exact cause of the fire could not be ascertained, but the media gathered that it started at about 2.38a.m. from one of the shops. It then spread to the shop where a man, identified simply as Ignatius, and his family lived in.
Ignatius, according to eyewitnesses, broke down the door of the shop, which he also used for laundry services, and ran out in flame. His wife, Hope, who was also on fire, ran out. Neighbours put out the fire on them.
However, Hope, who was in pains, dashed back into the raging fire, unnoticed, when her children kept crying for help.
But she was burnt to death with the children— Chukwuka, 9; Nonso, 7, and Ugochukwu, 6.
Meanwhile, Ignatius, said to have been severely burnt, was rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where he later died.
Oh my God, may God save us and our family o