Three children of the same parents were killed in an early morning inferno on Friday ravaged a community in Isolo area of Lagos State.
The Director of the Lagos State Fire Services, Rasak Fadipe, said the children, all females, were aged five, seven and 12.
Fadipe, who made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria, named the victims as Oluwapelumi Raman (5), Oluwaferanmi (7) and Christiana (12).
He said the tragedy occurred at about 4am at a Mechanic Village in Jakande Estate near Oke Afa, Isolo.
The director said preliminary investigation showed that a vehicle loaded with plastic containers containing petroleum products ran into parked vehicles in the area and the impact resulted in fire.
He said: “The fire affected eight lock up shops, three houses and three vehicles.
“The dead children were found in one of the shops.
“We did not know that there were human beings in any of the shops when our men arrived.
“We discovered it later.
“The corpses were handed over to the police from Ejigbo Division.”
Fadipe advised members of the public to be conscious of the activities of others around them that could endanger their lives, particularly people carrying fuel in plastic cans.
In a related development, Fadipe said the service also recovered the dead body of a 26-year-old woman, who fell into a well of about 120ft deep in Ijede area of Ikorodu.
He said the incident happened on Thursday evening at 1 Aina Street, Omitolo, Ijede in Ikorodu.
“When we got the information, we rushed there and recovered the dead body from the well,” he said.
When contacted the Lagos State Police Command’s spokesperson, DSP Patricia Amadin, gave the name of the victim as Murufa Alagbala.
Amadin said the police had deposited the body at the Ikorodu General Hospital mortuary for autopsy.
Amadin said report from the deceased’s family members indicated that the victim had some brain disorder.
She, however, said the police would investigate the remote cause of her death.
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