Two youngsters lose their lives as hearth razes constructing at Benue hospital (video)

Tragedy struck on the General Hospital Gboko, Benue State, the place a fireplace outbreak claimed the lives of two youngsters, a boy and a woman, aged 2 and 4 years.

‎According to eyewitnesses and hospital sources, the incident occurred on Tuesday night, October 27, 2026 when the dad and mom, who’re staying on the hospital quarters, locked the 2 youngsters inside a room and stepped out briefly.

‎It was throughout that brief absence that fireplace began from contained in the room.

A hospital workers mentioned they seen smoke coming from the room and shortly raised an alarm.

Before workers might pressure the door open and attain the kids, the hearth had already gone uncontrolled and engulfed the room.

‎Members of the hospital neighborhood and the host neighborhood gathered and made frantic efforts to place out the hearth and rescue the kids, however all efforts proved abortive. The youngsters have been burnt past recognition.

One of the occupants of the constructing, Godwin Aondohemba, who who confirmed the incident mentioned the hearth destroyed all of the properties within the constructing.

“Father Lord u said in any situations we find ourselves we should tank u this evening we lost two kids and all the properties in this apartment,” he wrote.

“1 my neighbor lost his two kids. 2 I lost all my properties nothing was removed. Pls pray for us, I am not around I went to work all this happened in my absence I lack words on this. Almighty God only u will help me out on this.”