A midnight fire at Ago Ika area of Abeokuta razed a six-room bungalow, killing two children of the same parents.
They were 12-year-old Lateef Akinwunmi and his five-year-old sister, Jumoke Akinwunmi.
Our correspondent learnt that the two siblings were burnt to death when a candle, allegedly lit by their mother, sparked off fire as the children were fast asleep in their room.
Sources told our correspondent that the children died because help could not reach them as firefighters found it difficult to get to the slum their home is located.
An occupant of the house said, “We suddenly saw smoke oozing out from the house but before we could rescue the children, the fire got worse, razed the house and burnt them to death. Their mother was even helpless.”
Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident.
He said, “We are aware of the incident. By the time the fire service officials arrived, the two children had been suffocated. The parents insisted that the police should release the corpses of the children to them. We did that and they have already buried them.”
Meanwhile, barely 48 hours to the installation of the new Olu of Ilaro, three people were seriously injured when the wall of the popular Igbo Aje Market in the Yewa South Local Government town collapsed on Thursday.
The injured persons identified as Ismaila Salau, Sulaiman Onipede and Saliu Oseni were rushed to the State Hospital in Ilaro for treatment.
The three traders rescued from the rubble of the collapsed market wall at around 12.30pm belong to the butchers’ association in the market.
They were said to have been busy attending to their customers in the market when the wall collapsed on them.
Several other persons also sustained varying degrees of injuries but the incident sparked off protest from some market men and women who demonstrated at the secretariat complex of Yewa South Local Government.
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