A woman with her children electrocuted

Tragic,"Around 2am, I was by the balcony of my house when I saw a wire spark. The wire then fell on some wood and caught fire. The fire spread to the tyre of a Toyota car. The Toyota car had some jerry cans of petrol inside it and when the fire got to it, the vehicle exploded in front of house number six.

"Some of the occupants of the house, who were trying to run for their lives, passed the back of the house and came out through the front of house number eight.”

They mistakenly stepped on parts of the wire and were electrocuted.

“The pregnant woman (Mrs Ameh) and her daughter were electrocuted by the wire. However, I quickly pulled away Jonathan, their son, and he survived.

“Three other residents, Basheet, Iya Fatimah and her daughter were also electrocuted.”

About an hour later, electricity officials disconnected power from the affected lines.

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