Residents of Isale- Aro area of Osogbo, capital of Osun State,
watched helplessly as a 75-year-old man, Lamina Ishola, was burnt to
death. An eyewitness told our correspondent that the neighbourhood had
noticed thick flame coming out of one of the rooms in the mud house
where Ishola lived at about 9pm on the fateful day.
He explained that some residents of the area had made frantic effort
to put out the inferno before fire fighters arrived the scene. But Ishola, a father of two- a ten-year-old and a girl, aged 7-was
unlucky as the fire had burned him to death before help came his way.
71-year-old brother of the deceased, who identified himself as Ademola Oseni, said the fire was caused by a kerosene lantern. Oseni said Ishola, who was not in good mental condition owing to an
injury he sustained in an accident, could had mistakenly hit the lantern
while asleep, igniting the fire that consumed him.
The Public Relations Officer of the Osun State Police Command, Mrs
Folasade Odoro, said the police were not aware of the fire incident.
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