[NIGERIA] 20 injured as fire ravages Yaba College of Technology hostel

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About 20 students of Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) yesterday sustained injuries when a fire outbreak suspected to have emanated from a power surge, engulfed one of the institution’s female halls of residence, Bakassi Hostel.

Daily Trust gathered that the fire started when power was restored ‎to the campus at 5:22 am.
The students further confirmed that the outbreak which started at the second floor of the two-storey building led to pandemonium which resulted to many of their colleagues sustaining injuries in a stampede.
Other students who are residents‎ of the hostel narrated that when the outbreak was on, the fire service truck brought in by the school management lacked water.


The school management however denied the allegation of not having water in the fire service truck. A statement issued by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Dr Charles Oni, said, “The management regretted misguided and outright falsehood on social media that there was no water on campus to quell the fire. The truth is that firemen needed excavator to attend to the fire which the college provided.”

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