A four year old boy and his 1year old sister burnt to death in Lagos inferno....SEE PHOTO

Two children of the same parents Paul, and his sister, 1 year, have
been burnt to death after fire gutted a bungalow in the Igbo-Efon,
Lekki area of Lagos State.
The fire disaster occured around 5am on Saturday.
A source was told that the fire began from a cooking stove which
exploded in the bungalow where the victims lived with their parents.
The fire was said to have quickly spread and torched the room where
the children were.
Firstclass newsline learnt that the mother of the children fled the
area and called for help, but the children could not be saved.
A source learnt that firefighters and other officials of the Lagos
State Fire Service and National Emergency Management Agency were on
ground during the incident.
The Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe, said the
agency was not alerted on time, adding that when firefighters got to
the scene, they only met the charred remains of the victims.
The lagos state fire service director said, "The fire started around
5am, and it involved a bungalow on 11, Fabiyi Street, Igbo Efon. The
bungalow has a two and a three bedroom flats.
"We were called to the notice of the incident exactly 6.03am and when
we got there, we still met the fire raging. We deployed our men from
the Eti-Osa and Onikan divisions in the area.
"However, when they got there, they only saw the corpses of the kids;
they had suffered severe burns injuries.
Initial investigations reveal that the children's father was not
around, but their mother was. They were preparing a meal on the stove,
when the stove exploded.
Fadipe said the children could not escape it and that was how they
were burnt to death."
Fadipe said an uncle of the victim called the ambulance service which
conveyed them to the mortuary, adding that the tragedy was avoidable
if precaution had been taken by the children's parents.
Fadipe urged and advised members of the public to avoid storing
kerosene and petrol in the same keg, which he said might have been
responsible for the incident.
It was suspected that the explosion was because kerosene was mixed up
with petrol in the tank of the stove. This could be because the couple
used the same keg to buy petrol and kerosene.
It was learnt that its very significant for people to always make sure
that the keg they use in buying kerosene is not the same used for
petrol.
When the fire in a cooking stove is to be put off, we must ensure the
thread is completely out, and not for us to be using crude method of
water or mouth to blow out the fire, which could cause an explosion,"
Fadipe added.
The NEMA spokesman, Ibrahim Farinloye, said the victims were with a
couple in the area because of the elections, when a gas cooker
exploded.
Ibrahim said, "The children were in the area because of the election
and wanted to seek refuge in the event that there was violence where
they stayed with their parents. They were cooking when there was an
explosion.
The children were said to have hidden under the bed, but were burnt to
death. Nobody knew they were there until somebody remembered that they
were still in the house, but by then, it was too late."
He added that officials of the agency tried to salvage the situation,
but it was too late
Firstclassnewsline.net.