SAD: Fire kills mother, seven-year-old daughter in Bayelsa

A THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD woman’s and her seven-year- old daughter were Thursday burnt to death in an early morning mysterious fire at Akenfa 1 area of Yenagoa Local Council of Bayelsa State.

The woman, Mrs. Elimiyegha Winipre, was trapped in the fire and burnt while trying to save her daughter, Elizabeth Winipre.

Witnesses said the fire, which started in the early hours of the day, attracted neighbours who tried to put out the fire but failed.

They suspected the fire could have been caused by fuel from a generating set. But others argued that the generating set  was not put to use  at the time of the fire.

It was learnt that her husband, Francis Winipre, who had gone out, came back when the incident occurred and asked his wife about the daughter. She reportedly rushed into the burning house to rescue the daughter. It was then the roof of the make-shift home collapsed and trapped both of them.

The husband, according his brother, Ebi James, would have gone into the fire in an attempt to rescue both, but was prevented by the sympathizers.

He was taken to the Federal Medical Centre because of the burns he sustained in an attempt to save his wife and daughter.