Tragedy struck in the Sabon gari area of Zaria, Kaduna State, on Thursday where a fire outbreak killed a couple and their six children in their sleep.
The fire incident occurred around 2 am on Thursday when the family members were asleep.
According to Daily Trust, a neighbour of the family, Mallam Junaidu Mohammed said, “though we could not ascertain the cause of the inferno, it started around 2 am Thursday morning when everybody was asleep.”
He said the heat and the noise woke neighbours up as they tried their best to put out the fire with the help of other good Samaritans.
“But we could not rescue the family alive. All efforts to get the fire service to the scene were not successful. We didn’t see firefighters until we buried the victims,” Mohammed added.
Elder brother of the head of the family, Adamu Mohammed, well known as Ado Kamfani, said, “Those who lost their lives in the inferno include his late brother, Mallam Rabi’u Mohammed and his wife, Fatima.
“Others were his six children, Rabiatu, Ibrahim, Abubakar, Hauwa’u, Hindatu and Baby Umar, who was about 34 days old.
“We actually could not identify the cause of the fire, but the whole house was completely burnt.”
It was gathered that all the belongings in the house were completely destroyed and the deceased had since been buried according to Islamic rite.
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