How Glory, 13yrs, Samuel, 8yrs and Darasimi, 3yrs died in Ibadan inferno

The three children of Mr Tunde and Mrs Christianah Emmanuel, Glory, 13, Samuel, eight, and Darasimi, three, died in a fire incident at their residence, situated at Last Bus Stop, behind Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan, early Friday. The fire, it was gathered, started around 1.00 a.m.

The couple, according to sources, were not around and the three children were locked inside the bedroom of an eight-room face-to-face building.

Saturday Tribune gathered that although nobody could ascertain the cause of the fire, it was the night guards in the vicinity were the ones who called attention to it.

The fire affected the room-and-parlour apartment occupied by the Emmanuel family more than it did the other parts of the building.

The eldest of the children, Glory, it was gathered, struggled to force the door open but for the padlock on the door and the continuous raging of the fire. Her brothers perished with her.

Everything in the bedroom where the children died was also burnt completely. The remains of the children were taken away by men from Sanyo Divisional Police Station, Ibadan.

According to sources, some young men occupying the room opposite the sitting room of the Emmanuels had gone clubbing when the fire broke out.

This alerted other occupants of the building and neighbours but they were helpless because the deceased’s dad, who sources informed had gone to pass the night in an unknown place, had locked the children inside the room, while his wife was on night duty at her place of work.

Efforts to rescue the trapped children proved abortive.

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Charred remains of the children in their burnt room.
How Glory, 13yrs; Samuel, 8yrs and Darasimi, 3yrs died in Ibadan inferno
•Where were their parents?
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By Tunde Ogunesan
On Jan 4, 2020

THE three children of Mr Tunde and Mrs Christianah Emmanuel, Glory, 13, Samuel, eight, and Darasimi, three, died in a fire incident at their residence, situated at Last Bus Stop, behind Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan, early Friday. The fire, it was gathered, started around 1.00 a.m.

The couple, according to sources, were not around and the three children were locked inside the bedroom of an eight-room face-to-face building.

Saturday Tribune gathered that although nobody could ascertain the cause of the fire, it was the night guards in the vicinity were the ones who called attention to it.

The fire affected the room-and-parlour apartment occupied by the Emmanuel family more than it did the other parts of the building.

The eldest of the children, Glory, it was gathered, struggled to force the door open but for the padlock on the door and the continuous raging of the fire. Her brothers perished with her.

Everything in the bedroom where the children died was also burnt completely. The remains of the children were taken away by men from Sanyo Divisional Police Station, Ibadan.

According to sources, some young men occupying the room opposite the sitting room of the Emmanuels had gone clubbing when the fire broke out.

This alerted other occupants of the building and neighbours but they were helpless because the deceased’s dad, who sources informed had gone to pass the night in an unknown place, had locked the children inside the room, while his wife was on night duty at her place of work.

Efforts to rescue the trapped children proved abortive.

In an interview with a neighbour of the family who identified herself simply as Adeola, she disclosed that the three children struggled till death.

Adeola, whose room was also burnt completely, said: “We were sleeping when the night guards called our attention to the fire from outside around 1.00 a.m.