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Photo: Fire roast 4 children of
same parents to death on Xmas
day in Anambra It was a sad Christmas day celebration for the
Ofomata family residing at Umuele Umudim,
Nnewi, Anambra State as a fire outbreak at their
three-bedroom apartment roasted four of their
children- Chioma Ofomata, 6, Goodness& Mercy
Ofomata who were twins, 3, and Ifeoma, 2, to death. According to
reports, the mother of the 4 girls had
locked her children in the house and had gone over
to the community center to collect her share of
Christmas rice meant for widows in the community
when the fire started. Residents in the area were not quick to notice the
fire or hear the cry for help from the children until
they started seeing thick smoke coming from their
apartment. By the time the door to their house
was broken down, only the charred remains of the
four girls were found. Their father, 57 year old Mr Ofoamata, a
vulcanizer, said he was at his shop with his two
sons, Kosy, 8, and Ebuka, 5 when the incident
happened. He said he got to know of the
unfortunate incident when edhe returned home at
about 6pm and saw people gather at his compound with smoke coming from
his apartment. He said
his wife never told him she was going out to
collect any rice. While giving her account of what happened, mrs
Ofomata said she locked her children in their
apartment so as to restrict their movement and
that the day of the incident wasn't the first time
she would lock them in. She denied claims that the
rice she went to collect was actually meant for widows "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 The remains of the little children have been
deposited at the mortuary.