A fire outbreak at a storey building in Ori-Eru, Idikan area of Ibadan, has claimed the lives of a husband, his wife, and their grandson.

The fire incident occurred in the early hours of Friday.

Yemi Akinyinka, general manager of the Oyo State Fire Services Agency, made this known in a statement on Friday in Ibadan.

Mr Akinyinka said the personnel of the agency received a distress call about the incident through a call made by one Mr Hassan at exactly 3:46 a.m. on Friday and immediately deployed personnel to the scene.

“On arrival, we met an upper floor of a residential storey building of six rooms well alight, and we swiftly swung into action, and the fire was completely extinguished,” he said.

The general manager said three persons, a husband, his wife, and their grandson, lost their lives in the fire incident while five persons were rescued alive from the building.

According to him, the ground floor of the building and other nearby properties were saved from the inferno.

“From our investigation, we discovered that in their attempt to keep their house warm because of the cold weather, they resorted to using naked fire, which resulted in a fire disaster after they had slept off,” he said.

Mr Akinyinka said that a team of policemen led by CSP Olaniyan Jibola from Mapo Division and that of Amotekun led by Gbenga Akinyemi from North-West Division were on the ground to prevent a breakdown of law and order.


(NAN)