Three children have lost their lives following a fire incident in Rumuochakara community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
It was gathered that the fire which occurred on Monday night may have been caused by a candlelight.
The fire was said to have spread and razed two other buildings in the area.
Narrating the incident, father of the deceased children, Uwekwe Solomon, said his three other surviving children are in critical condition after being rescued.
According to him, “Yesterday as we slept, what I heard was my wife shouting fire, fire, like a dream, I rushed, passed through the fire to try to rescue my children.
“But I was able to rescue three, then I lost three as a result of the fire. I have slept around past eight. And this thing happen by 9 to 10 pm.
“There is no candle in my house. I don’t know how the fire came about. I felt like dying with them (children). I wanted to run into a moving car, but my neighbours held me.”
The distraught man also said one of the children who died in the inferno was his niece who came for the holiday and decided to stay back and start school in Port Harcourt.
“One of them is my sister’s child that came on holiday and decided to stay with me and she wanted to start school here in Port Harcourt. So, we registered her on Monday. That same Monday, September 26, this thing happened,” he added.
