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Fire razes five shops in Ebonyi, four-year-old dies, four hospitalized

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Fire razes five shops in Ebonyi, four-year-old dies, four hospitalized
Tragedy struck at Onuebonyi Junction in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, as a devastating fire outbreak claimed the life of a four-year-old boy, identified as Osinachi, and left four others hospitalized. The incident, which occurred in an Abakaliki suburb, was reportedly triggered by a cooking gas explosion in one of the shops at the busy junction. An eyewitness, Mr Oku Chinagorom, told DAILY POST on Thursday that the fire started when a gas cylinder exploded and spread rapidly to nearby goods within the shop. According to him, the shop owner, popularly known as Mama Osi, was in the shop while her husband had traveled to their Okposi village a day before the incident occurred. However, in an attempt to rescue her four children who were inside at the time, she sustained severe burns in the proc...
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