Two minors have been roasted to death in a mysterious fire accident which occurred at Udo Imuk street in Eket Local Government Area on Friday, December 30, 2022.
It was gathered the minors aged six and three were burned beyond recognition in the inferno which occurred at about 7:00 pm that fateful day.
Our correspondent reports that the kids were locked inside their one-room apartment by their parents who went out to get something expecting to return home shortly.
The neighbours said they had no idea that the kids were inside the room when a noticed the fire had razed down the room.
The cause of the inferno is yet to be ascertained at press time, as newsmen who visited the scene on Saturday morning, gathered that there was no light source such as electrical connections, no candle or gas cylinder.
Narrating the incident, one Prince Ekpo, the affected tenant occupying a single room and living with the wife and the two kids said, “I left the phone in the room to give light in the room for the children hoping to return soon after the injection, my wife earlier went out to buy something.”
“I came back and saw people crowded and discovered my two children were burnt dead and we don’t know the source of the fire.”
Also the landlord, Bright Godwin Peter, while speaking to newsmen said he is yet to know the source of the outbreak.
“We didn’t notice when the fire started, we only heard an explosive sound and while going to check, the fire had gutted the room and spread to our rooms and parkour, we tried to remove our properties, but serious damages had been done already.”
We called people to come and help us to quench the fire and I told my brother that children were inside the room and before we went for their rescue the children were roasted dead, and our properties damaged.”
The fire incident affected adjoining rooms, destroyed properties and opened the roof.
