The Lagos State Police Command has begun an investigation into the circumstances leading to a three-year-old boy simply identified as Michael dying in a fire resulting from a candle-induced fire disaster in a house at Olorunsogo Street, Ejigbo, in Lagos State.
The incident occurred about 11:10 p.m. on Saturday when a lit candle in one of the rooms burnt the platform it was placed on and resulted in a huge fire that razed the building down.
“The fire was caused by a candle that was lit, which later melted in one of the rooms. The room caught fire, and it spread to the other 10 rooms in the compound. As a result of the fire, one child named Michael, a three-year-old son of Mr. Ayo got burnt completely. Also, property worth millions of naira got burnt in the inferno,” a resident told the Punch.
A resident in the area, simply identified as Dapo, stated that the Lagos State Fire Fighters and other relevant agencies were present at the scene, adding that the Lagos State Ambulance Service evacuated the boy’s remains.
He said, “The houses in the compound burnt totally and the small boy burnt completely. Candles are not advisable to use at all because I wonder how just one candle destroyed millions of naira.”
