52-year old man dies in late night fire in Kwara

A 52-year aged antheral has died successful a precocious nighttime occurrence catastrophe which occurred connected Thursday astatine Lafia Hotel, Coca-Cola roadworthy successful Ilorin, Kwara State.

The occurrence outbreak affected a installation utilized for short-let purposes.

The incident, according to the spokesperson of the authorities occurrence service, Hassan Adekunle, progressive a gathering comprising 2 flats with 3 bedrooms each, each of which were affected by the fire.

“The full gathering was heavy engulfed successful smoke, making flight highly hard for occupants.

“Tragically, 1 beingness was mislaid successful the incidental an unidentified male, estimated to beryllium astir 52 years of age,” helium stated.

Adekunle, disclosed that “Preliminary probe revealed that the occurrence was attributed to a powerfulness surge, arsenic the outbreak reportedly occurred instantly aft powerfulness proviso was restored, starring to accelerated occurrence dispersed crossed the building.”

Firefighters, helium added, arrived promptly and brought the occurrence nether power astatine astir 23:51hrs.

The spokesperson said 3 occurrence appliances were deployed to mitigate the magnitude of the inferno, with enactment from the Federal Fire Service, whose unit were besides contiguous astatine the scene.

Director of the authorities occurrence service, Alabi Muhammed, expressed heavy interest implicit the nonaccomplishment of beingness and ad...