It was a tale of tears and sorrow as a 15-year-old boy was
killed in a kerosene explosion that occurred on Thursday in Benin, the Edo
State capital.
The incident which took place in the Textile Mill area of
the city, also affected a woman, Loveth Odeh and her 5-year-old son whose name
was given as Wisdom, as they suffered several degrees of burns from the fire
that followed the explosion and are being treated at the Benin Central
Hospital.
According to Odeh, the incident occurred at about 3am, when
she was refilling the kerosene inside her lamp, after she discovered that the
lamp was almost extinguishing, believing that the kerosene must have been
adulterated.
"There was no light and I put on my lamp. I tried to
refill it. It was when I was refilling that the whole thing exploded.
Before I knew what was happening, it was fire all over me
and the whole place was filled with smoke."
The fire claimed the life of the young chap who was the
nephew of Loveth's husband, Sunday who was not at home when the fire broke out.
The poor boy was fast asleep and before help could get to him, he had lost his
life in the inferno.
please how true is this update?
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