A 42-year-old
mother, Mrs Blessing Arigi-Osakwe, lost her life on Sunday to injuries
sustained while attempting to save her two children from an inferno in Sokoto.
The News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two children also lost their lives
after the bid to save them by their courageous mother failed.
While the two
children were recovered dead from the incident which happened at the early
hours of Saturday at their house along Trade Fair, Old Airport area of Sokoto,
their mother later died on Sunday.
The fire was
said to have been caused by an electrical fault that emanated within the
apartment while powering their generating set.
According to
an anonymous source, the deceased mother, alongside her husband and two older
children, had initially escaped from the fire unhurt.
She was,
however, said to have later made a brave and desperate attempt to save the
younger children who were still trapped inside the burning house.
The two
children were identified as her nine years old son and nephew.
According to
eyewitnesses, the burning roof suddenly collapsed on the deceased woman as she
attempted taking the children to a safer place.
The remains of
the three deceased persons had since been deposited at the morgue of the Usman
Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, while the two other children
were receiving treatment
When
contacted, the Director-General of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Ibrahim
Dingyadi, told NAN that the incident was not reported to the department.
”Our personnel
only attended to a fire incident along Offa road, Sokoto on Friday and there
was no casualty,” he said.
Similarly, Mr
Elmustapha Sani, the police spokesman in the state, told NAN that the incident
was not reported to the police.
However, the
spokesman of the Teaching Hospital, Mr Tijjani Saddique, confirmed the story.
He said, “The
two children were brought into the Trauma Centre of the hospital on Saturday
dead.’’
”However,
their mother died at the hospital on Sunday,” he said.
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