A man and his wife together with their grandson have been killed in a fire outbreak which affected a storey building at Ori-Eru, Idikan area of Ibadan.
Edum News gathered that the fire incident occurred in the early hours of today (Friday).
According to the General Manager, Oyo State Fire Services Agency, Yemi Akinyinka, who made this known in a statement, the agency received the distress call about the incident through a call made by one Hassan at exactly 3:46 a.m. on Friday
After receiving the call, the agency immediately deployed personnel to the scene.
He said, “On arrival we met an upper floor of a residential storey building of six rooms well alight, and we swiftly swung into action, and the fire was completely extinguished.
“From our investigation we discovered that in their attempt to keep their house warm because of the cold weather, they resorted to using naked fire, which resulted in a fire disaster after they had slept off.”
