{"id":129267,"date":"2019-06-23T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129267"},"modified":"2019-06-23T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T14:22:28","slug":"mother-daughter-die-others-injured-as-fire-razes-building-in-delta-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129267","title":{"rendered":"Mother, daughter die, others injured as fire razes building in Delta community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mother-daughter-die-others-injured-as-fire-razes-building-in-Delta-community.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A woman simply identified as Carol and her daughter, Favour have been reported dead with three others seriously injured as fire on Saturday razed down building in Eku Community, Ethiope-East Local Government Area of Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>Property including a commercial shop in the building and a caravan within the area were also engulfed by the inferno.<\/p>\n<p>Details as to the cause of to fire are still sketchy at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness who craved anonymity said the fire started when Carol, a kerosene dealer was selling the product to a customer when suddenly a gallon went aflame and spread to other gallons of kerosene in the shop.<\/p>\n<p>The eyewitness said the fire enveloped Carol who was with her daughter, Favour at the time and burnt her to death instantly.<\/p>\n<p>The eyewitness added that Favour died on her as she was being rushed to the hospital for medical treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The eyewitness said the fire may have resulted from adulterated kerosene.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has thrown residents of the area in shock as sympathizers were seen searching for other occupants of the building who may have been trapped under the wreckages.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Adeyinka Adeleke confirmed the report, noting that, \u201cOnly one person died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CP Adeleke said, \u201cthe fire started as a result of a woman selling adulterated kerosene and fuel in the house.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman simply identified as Carol and her daughter, Favour have been reported dead with three others seriously injured as fire on Saturday razed down building in Eku Community, Ethiope-East Local Government Area of Delta State. Property including a commercial shop in the building and a caravan within the area were also engulfed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,6710,8814],"class_list":["post-129267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-fire","tag-fire-outbreak"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}