Friday, January 10, 2025 - A midnight fire has k!lled a 24-year-old woman identified as Jumai Sunday and her one year-six months son, Nasir Rabiu in a house at Kugbo furniture market in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Federal Capital Territory.
Eyewitnesses at the scene said the inferno occurred while the woman and
her only son were in a deep sleep on Wednesday, January 8, 2025.
According
to them, the bodies were discovered by neighbours and sympathisers in their
efforts to rearrange the properties after firefighters had finished controlling
the situation.
Confirming
the incident to newsmen, the police officer in charge of Karu division in
Abuja, Lakur Langyi, said his men received distress calls at midnight on
Wednesday from the area and moved to the scene and discovered a woman and her
son burnt to d3ath.
He said
the source of the fire was yet to be ascertained but the police have since
commenced an investigation into the matter.
“Yes,
there was a fire incident in Kugbo at a place called Bakasi, my men got
distress calls at midnight Wednesday and moved to the area, they discovered a
woman, identified as Jumai Sunday with her one-and-a-half-year-old boy burnt to
d3ath,” he said.
"My men have since commenced an investigation into the matter, they
are currently in the area”
The woman was from Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area of Nasarawa
State.
She and her son have since been buried in Kugbo cemetery off Abuja-Nyanya -Keffi Expressway.
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