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Breaking: Yabatech ”Bakassi” Hostel On Fire, 2 Reported Dead
One of YabaTech’s female hostel, Bakassi is currently on fire as Fire Fighters are battling to put it off.
The fire started at around 5:00am early this morning when the school put on the generator for general use this morning.
A student simply identified as Semilore spoke with one of our reporters this morning to give an account of how it started. He said he was coming from night class at around 5:05am when he noticed fire outbreak in one of the room in the first floor of the female hostel. He said the outbreak could be as a result of faulty connection, or hot plate or iron.
He quickly raised an alarm by shouting Bakassi is on fire, Bakassi is on fire till he get to the Fire service Department of the school. The men of the Fire Service Department mobilized quickly to the hostel, but on getting there the fire as expanded to the second floor. By this time, students have been evacuated out of the building.
Another student who doesn’t want to be named told Our Reporter that he can authoritatively confirm that two ladies are feared dead. They died as a result of stampede that occurred when students are trying to run out of the building.
The fire is also yet to be put out as men of the Fire Service Department of the college ran out of water. Men of Lagos Fire Service Department are on their way to the scene of the incident.
Breaking: Plane crash kills Ten people
A small private jet crashed into a motorbike and a car while attempting to land at an airport in the outskirts of Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, leaving at least 10 people dead, officials said on Thursday.
A Beechcraft Model 390 (Premier 1) aircraft, a light private business jet, was carrying six passengers and two crew when it crashed near Elmina township at 2.08 p.m. (0608 GMT), just before it was due to land, Selangor police chief Hussein Omar Khan told reporters.
The aircraft lost contact with the air traffic control tower and crashed into a motorbike and a car on the highway, he said. “There was no emergency call, the aircraft had been given clearance to land,” Hussein Omar said. A search and rescue mission is underway. The country’s civil aviation authority (CAAM) said the flight had departed from the holiday island of Langkawi and was en route to Selangor’s Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport near the capital city Kuala Lumpur.
Seven Passengers Burnt To Death Near Third Mainland Bridge In Car Accident
Seven passengers have been confirmed killed after a commercial bus caught fire in Lagos on Sunday
At least five others were said to have sustained injuries in the tragic incident that occurred at Iyana Oworo, close to the Third Mainland Bridge.
The deceased comprises four females, two male adults and one male child.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said there were 14 passengers in the ill-fated bus with registration number KJA 699 GY.
Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, Permanent Secretary of LASEMA, said the driver had some burns.
He added that three female adults involved in the incident were rushed to Gbagada General Hospital and that a male adult was attended to by the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS) at the scene.
“LASTMA officials at the scene have made arrangements to remove the burnt vehicle from the road,” Oke-Osanyintolu said.
Nigerian Deputy Governor Loses Seven-Year-Old Son In Car Accident
By Olorunfemi Adejuyigbe
The deputy governor of Yobe State, Hon. Idi Barde Gubana, lost a son in an auto crash which occurred yesterday
A statement signed by his press secretary, Hussaini Mai Suleh, in Damaturu said the seven-year-old boy who was a namesake to Governor Mai Mala Buni died in a crash along Maiduguri-Kano road.
He said the boy had been buried according to Islamic rites at the palace of the Mai of Fune in Damagum town in Fune local government area.
Reacting, the deputy governor said; “I will forever remember him as somebody close to me.’’
Top government officials and other personalities were at the residence of the deputy governor to sympathise with the family over the death.
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