{"id":5304,"date":"2015-07-22T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T09:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2015-07-22T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T09:10:45","slug":"how-my-fathers-mistake-led-to-the-death-of-my-sister-and-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5304","title":{"rendered":"How my father”s mistake led to the death of my sister and brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death toll of Monday\u2019s gas explosion in Ajegunle area of Lagos rose to three yesterday, following the death of two siblings.
\nRecall that father of the children, Charles Obianagor, 55, was burnt beyond recognition, while his wife, four children, sister in-law and six neighbours were rushed to the hospital.
\nVanguard gathered that his two children, a male and a female, aged 12 and nine, respectively, died at about 10p.m. same day, in a hospital at Gbagada, where they were rushed to.
\nYesterday, his wife, Mabel, and his two children, Issac and Amaka, were still at the intensive care units in separate hospitals at Tolu and Gbagada areas of the state, with doctors battling to save their lives.
\n\u2018My father ignored my warning\u2019
\nOne of the survivors, Isaac, whose legs, hands, part of his back and face were severely burnt, blamed his late father for the tragedy, unaware that the father was dead.
\nNarrating how the incident occurred, 16-year-old Isaac, who just concluded his secondary school education from Bola Ige Millennium Secondary School, Tolu, stated that his family was advised to change their burner owing to a technical fault.
\nHe said he bought the burner and also refilled the gas cylinder, Monday, and was on the verge of fixing it when his father opted to assist him.
\nAccording to him: \u201cMy father brought the cylinder to the sitting room and opened it, with the intention of tightening the lock. I told him not to open it that it was dangerous but he ignored the advice, saying nothing would happen.
\n\u201cI do not know what he pressed, but the next thing I heard was a deafening sound and the smell of gas everywhere. As I rushed to tighten the cylinder head, the impact of the fire flung me away.
\n\u201cThis was because the stove was lit and there was pepper soup and rice, which my mother was going to sell later that day.
\n\u2018I couldn\u2019t breathe\u2019
\n\u201cAt this point, my whole body was on fire. I managed to rush to where we keep our clothes with the intention of using the clothes to put out the fire on my body, but I was still burning.
\n\u201cAt that time, I could not breathe again. I managed to open the burglary proof and went out before people started pouring water on me. I did not know how others escaped.\u201d
\nAt this point, he asked if his parents and siblings\u2019 condition were as serious as his, unknown to him that his father and two siblings were dead.
\nWhen Vanguard arrived the scene of the incident located at 7, Amore Street, it was observed that only the Obianagor\u2019s apartment was affected.
\n\u2018We broke through walls to rescue them\u2019
\nA resident, who simply gave his name as Mukaila, explained that nobody could gain access into the affected apartment because of the burglary proof mounted on the balcony and entrance of the apartment.
\nMukaila said: \u201cWhen the incident occurred, we heard their desperate shout for help. But nobody could go inside because of the burglary proof. We tried to break it, but could not because it was locked from inside.
\n\u201cAnother cause for their inability to escape was because there was only one escape route which was through the kitchen, which was engulfed by fire.
\n\u201cWe had to break the wall by the balcony, from where the wife, four children and the wife\u2019s niece, who came on holiday, were brought out.
\n\u201cWe were made to understand that they were using coal pot before but that other tenants kicked against it because of the smoke it generated.\u201d
\nHospitals rejected victims
\nIt was also gathered that two hospitals within the vicinity, where Mrs Obianagor and her four children were rushed, rejected them.
\nAnother resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: \u201cThey were rushed to Tolu Medical Centre, where only Isaac was admitted, as the hospital said they could not admit the rest owing to the magnitude of burns.
\n\u201cFrom there we rushed them to Femi and Zolingar hospitals, where they were also rejected and referred to Gbadaga General Hospital.\u201d
\nVanguard gathered that the charred remains of Charles Obianagor was also rejected at the morgue.
\nMembers of the Lord\u2019s Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministry, where late Charles worshipped, reportedly brought an ambulance, which conveyed the deceased to his home town in Anambra, Monday.
\nHe was said to have been buried yesterday.
\n– See more at: http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\"gas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The death toll of Monday\u2019s gas explosion in Ajegunle area of Lagos rose to three yesterday, following the death of two siblings. Recall that father of the children, Charles Obianagor, 55, was burnt beyond recognition, while his wife, four children, sister in-law and six neighbours were rushed to the hospital. Vanguard gathered that his two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gas-explosion.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1ny","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5306,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions\/5306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}