Last wednesday Night a Two-month-old baby and parents Lost Their Life in Fire incident

A two-month

old baby and her parents lost their lives in a midnight inferno that razed their residence in Kajola community, Osun State, in the early hours of Wednesday. A resident, who pleaded anonymity, said the

couple and their baby were consumed by the fire

without anyone noticing  in the neighbourhood. It could not be ascertained whether the tragedy

occurred before a light rain on Wednesday or

after. Our correspondent, however, noted that the

incident had thrown the community into grief. One of the children of the deceased, who went for

a vigil, wept uncontrollably when she returned

home in the morning to meet the charred bodies of

her parents and sibling. All the household gadgets of the family were burnt

in the inferno suspected to be caused by a power

surge. The state Deputy Governor, Mrs Titi Laoye-Tomori,

who visited the scene, expressed shock. Laoye-Tomori, who gave an undisclosed amount of

money to the family, said, “The  government will

henceforth be responsible for the upkeep of the

surviving children.” Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence

Corps took the corpses of the victims to the

mortuary. The Public Relations Officer, Ife-Ile PHCN Business

District, Mr Akin Otaraki, said the fire outbreak

could not have been cause by a power surge

because the area had been disconnected from

power supply by Power Holding Company of

Nigeria. “The community and some others had been in

darkness since Saturday, July 20, 2013 due to a

yet-to-be identified fault. The fact on the ground

is that the inferno could  not have been caused by

a power surge because there has not been power

supply to the affected communities, including Kajola,” Otaraki said.