Tragedy hit Jenta-Adamu, Jos, Plateau State on Monday when a former Aide-de-Camp to erstwhile Governor Fidelis Tapgun, ASP Anthony Kwame (rtd), his two daughters, Theresa and Kerry, and son, Emmanuel, dies in a fire that engulfed their residence.
According to Mr Terna Tyopev, the spokesman for the Plateau Police Command, Kwame’s wife, Charity and his daughter, Evelyn, survived the early morning fire disaster but sustained severe burns, Freedom Online reports.
“The deceased were burnt to ashes; what were taken to the mortuary of Plateau Specialist Hospital in Jos were just the skeletons,’’ Tyopev said in Jos on Monday.
The cause of the fire was not known but neighbours said it started around 1 a.m.
“The fire started around 1 a.m; that is all I am sure of,’’ a neighbour, Tina Fobur, said.
The Village Head of Jenta-Adamu, Mr Kabala Bako, whose residence shares a fence with that of the deceased, said that he rushed out of his house when he heard sounds of the fire.
“When Ì rushed out, I called out other neighbours and we tried to put out the fire, but it had already engulfed the entire house and there was nothing we could do about it. But we succeeded in making sure that not so many houses in our area were affected”
The two survivors, currently on admission at Plateau Specialist Hospital, could not speak on the possible causes of the fire as they were writhing in severe pains.
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