A man simply identified as Obinna was on Saturday, burnt to death after fire engulfed his apartment in Lagos State.
Gatekeepers News reports that spokesman of Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the incident to the press on Sunday in Lagos.
Hundeyin revealed that Obinna was burnt to death while sleeping in his apartment during a fire incident in Iyana-Ipaja area of the state.
He noted that the incident happened on Saturday at 7:30 p. m. at No 13, Olarenwaju St., off Oki St., Iyana-Ipaja.
The spokesman added that the Oke-Odo Division of the force received a distress call from a resident of the house concerning the incident.
He said, “After a distress call was received, the Divisional Police Officer immediately visited the scene with operatives of the division.”
“Fire service was contacted on phone and by the time the fire was put out, a tenant, who was sleeping in his room got burnt and died in the fire incident.”
“The pictures of the victim and the building were taken.”
Hundeyin said the corpse had been evacuated and deposited at the morgue at General Hospital in Yaba for post mortem examination.
The spokesman noted that the cause of the fire is still unknown and investigation is ongoing to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident.
