A two-year-old boy identified as Praise Emeka was at the weekend burnt to death after fire razed their apartment at Ikotun, a Lagos suburb.
The kid’s pregnant mother was said to have collapsed and his older sibling injured in the inferno said to have been caused by unattended candle light.
The incident occurred on Friday night at 4, Ben Okonkwo Street, off Governor Road in Ikotun, a storey-building with eight mini flats.
According to sources, the woman allegedly lit candle for her three children during power outage and went out.
It was however not clear if the children were playing with the lit candle causing it to fall and engulf the flat.
Before the woman’s return, it was gathered that the last of her three children had been burnt beyond recognition while another one sustained fire burns.
There were fears that the woman might have inhaled fumes as well as suffered trauma occasioned by the death of her child.
It was gathered that she was rushed to a nearby hospital by eyewitnesses before the arrival of emergency workers.
