Lagos fire: How 80-year-old, others, were roasted

MORE chilly revelations have emerged, regarding how a late-night fire roasted no fewer than eight family members last week in Obele area of Lawanson, Surulere, Lagos. A man identified as Kelechi Onoja, wife, Nkiru, their one-year and eight months-old child, Favour, and their three-week, unnamed, second born, were burnt to death. The man’s unidentified, mother in-law, 80, and two family members, Odinaka, 12, and Ukamaka, 13, who might have accompanied the octogenarian to Lagos were also victims of the inferno. Six-year-old Chidinma, the eighth victim, who was earlier rescued alive by officials of the Lagos Fire Service, died at the Gbagada General Hospital afterwards.