Photo: Fire Roasts 4 Children Of Same Parents To Death On Xmas Day In Anambra

Tragedy struck at Umuele Umudim, Nnewi, Anambra State,
on Christmas as four children of the same parents were
roasted to death by mystery fire in their three-bedroom
apartment on the ground floor of a storey building when
their parents were not around.
The victims, Chioma Ofomata, 6 years old, Goodness, and
Mercy Ofomata who were twins, 3, and Ifeoma, 2, all
females were allegedly locked inside the apartment by their
mother, Mrs. Chinemerem Ofomata, who was said to have
gone to have a share of Christmas rice gift meant for
widows in the community, after her husband, a vulcanizer,
had already gone out to work with two of their children
(boys), Kosy, 8, and Ebuka, 5.
Father of the victims, Mr. Anthony Ofomata, 57, said it was
around 6pm, on December 25, that he was returning home
only to see crowd at his residence, which is isolated from
other buildings and, according to him, it was only his family
that occupied the entire building.
According to him, he saw flames and sympathisers
struggling to destroy the doors and windows and the iron
burglary proofs to rescue the four children in the midst of
the raging fire to no avail. He said his wife did not tell him
where she was going to and did not know that the children
were locked inside the house.
Our source said before people could notice what was
happening at the house it was when flames were already
coming out through the windows indicating that the children
had already been consumed by the inferno before help could
come. Probably, when they were crying for help, nobody
heard them. The source said when the door was finally
forced open, the charred bodies of the children were seen
mangled together at one corner of the house where they had
run to possibly thinking they would be saved there.
Mother of the victims said the door was actually locked
outside to restrict movement of the children, as she said it
wasn’t the first time the children were locked inside.
As for what caused the fire, she said she did not know,
adding that there was no inflammable material inside the
apartment. She said she locked them inside after having a
meal with them and set out for the sharing. She denied that
the rice was meant for widows alone.
“The rice was meant for everybody, not widows alone. If
you like go and find out. I don’t know what caused the fire,”
she said when the police led her to the scene of the incident
for investigation after being arrested.
Bodies of the deceased were later deposited at a near by
mortuary as mother of the victims is still telling the police
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