Residents of Baale Street, Igbo-Efon in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lekki in Lagos State have revealed that the cause of the fire in which a brother and sister died on Sunday was their mother.
Residents also said the landlord of the building, Hon. Muyideen Jinadu, died attempting to fight the fire.
The fire was said to have started after the kids’ mother, who came with them to visit a family member in the compound, who had just put to bed went to the kitchen to switch on the gas cooker and it exploded.
The nursing mother and her visitor ran out, leaving the two kids behind.
Aside from the two kids and landlord that died, four other tenants who were affected are presently in different hospitals.
The corpses of the kids were later recovered from under the bed where they took cover when the fire started.
According to the residents, the mother of the kids disappeared into thin air since the incident.
But one Mr. Abago, residing at Shogotedo, has been identified as the father of the two kids.
It was reported that a four-year-old boy and his one-year-old sister died in a fire that gutter a bungalow at Igbo-Efon, Lekki on Sunday morning.
The brother to the Muyideen, Alhaji Babatunde Muyideen, said he woke up Sunday morning to find that his brother’s home had been razed by fire.