A husband, his wife, and their grandson have been killed in a fire incident in the Ori-Eru, Idikan area of Ibadan, Oyo State.
However, five people were rescued alive from the tragedy, which occurred in the early hours of Friday, affected a storey-building.
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The General Manager of the Oyo State Fire Services Agency, Yemi Akinyinka, who confirmed this in a statement released in Ibadan, explained that the agency received a distress call about the fire at 3:46 am on Friday from one Hassan and immediately deployed personnel to the scene.
“On arrival, we found the upper floor of a six-room residential storey-building engulfed in flames. We swiftly swung into action, and the fire was completely extinguished,” he said
He added that the ground floor and nearby properties were saved from the inferno.
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“From our investigation, we discovered that in their attempt to keep their house warm due to the cold weather, they resorted to using a naked flame, which led to the fire disaster after they had fallen asleep,” he explained.
