TRAGEDY struck at the Faith Revival Apostolic Church in the Egbeda area of the Lagos metropolis yesterday when a fire raged through the premises killing seven-year-old girl Priscilla Adesina.
Apparently, the fire started around 1.30am after the parents of the girl left their house which was within the church premises to attend a vigil in the church. They reportedly locked the door from outside, making it difficult for her to escape from the room.
Her father was said to be a resident pastor of the church. Unfortunately, the girl was said to have inhaled fumes and was recovered dead around 4am, after the inferno was put out by fire fighters from the Ikotun station of the Lagos State Fire Service.
Pastor Emmanuel Adenuga, the assistant general overseer of the church, said the congregation made frantic efforts to extinguish the fire immediately it was noticed to no avail. Rasaq Fadipe, the Lagos State Fire Service director, said it had yet to determine the cause of the fire while Miss Adesina’s corpse had been handed over to the police from the Ikotun division.
Mr Fadipe added: “We received a distressed call at about 1.45am that a boys’ quarters behind the auditorium of Faith Revival Apostolic Church was on fire. Fire fighters from Ikotun responded immediately and the fire was raging when we got there.
“The girl was locked inside the room while her parents went for a vigil in the church. She inhaled a lot of fumes and was met dead on the bed around 4am when the fire was put out.”
Although the immediate cause of the fire had yet to be ascertained, it is feared that a generator was put on in the apartment, which may have been responsible. Policemen from the Idimu Area Command arrived the scene about 10 minutes ahead of fire fighters from Ikotun and prevented the raging inferno from spreading to other apartments.
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