A 15-year-old, Emmanuel David, has died after a fire broke out in one of the apartments inside the Police Barracks at Falomo, Ikoyi in Lagos.
It was gathered that the teenager was already asleep when the fire broke out on Tuesday night.
The teenager was discovered by rescuers after the fire had been put out in their Room 24, Block One residence.
The deceased said to be the son of an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Godspower David attached to the Bar Beach Division of the Lagos Police Command.
The State Police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident said from the report received, the fire broke out around 9 pm on Tuesday and that emergency responders were immediately mobilised to the scene.
Hundeyin said, “The teams successfully put out the fire, however, during evacuation of the debris, corpse of one Emmanuel Godspower David, 15, the son of the officer consumed by the inferno was found.
“The corpse was evacuated to a public morgue for autopsy, while investigation is in progress.”
He said the Commissioner of Police (CP) Owohunwa Idowu alongside his deputy, DCP Isa Grema, visited the family on Thursday to condole with them over the sad incidence.
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