Five children of the same family have died in a fire incident at Abagbo Village, Takwa-Bay area of Lagos, police said on Sunday.
Lagos police spokesman, Bala Elkana, in a statement said investigation had begun on the fire incident which occurred on Tuesday.
“The mother of the victims, Mrs Florence Asoye, stated that she left home at about 6.30p.m to Takwa-Bay Jetty only to come back to see her room completely raised by fire.
“She said that she left her children under the care of one Suliat who locked the children in the room and left for an unknown destination,” Mr Elkana said.
The victims are Folake Ogundiya, 13; Abigail Ogundiya, 8; Daniel Bakare, 6; Chidinma Achomye, 2; and one-year-old Nnamdi Achomye.
The police also said they had begun investigating the death of a woman in a hotel room in Morogbo in Badagry.
The spokesman said the Morogbo Police Station on August 9 received information that a woman named Jessica, who booked a room in South Bound Hotel, Morogbo, was found dead in her hotel room.
Elkana said homicide detectives had visited the scene and found the corpse with a swollen face and foam-like fluid coming out of her mouth.
“Her throat was knotted with clothes suggesting that she might have been strangulated.
“There were blood stains all over the place. The corpse was evacuated to a mortuary for autopsy while the scene was preserved for forensic analysis,” Elkana said.
He added that the police commissioner, Zubairu Muazu, had ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department in Yaba to take over the investigation.
