It was a bleak Christmas for residents of 27 Mabel Street, off Etete road in Benin City as a family of three lost their lives to an early morning fire which razed their building.
The landlord of the house, Mr. Egberamwen Nosakhare, said the fire started at 2a.m. when he saw smoke billowing from one of the tenants’ room.
A tenant, Mrs. Osayande Joseph, said she ran into her room to pick up her child and escaped through the back door. A neighbor, Okhuoghae Osawaru, said: “The affected family was inside the house when the fire started.
The name of the man was unknown at press time.
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