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TRAGIC: 7 Family Members Die In Fire Disaster In Abuja

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Seven members of a family known as the Umu Ojobo Nwonu family were burnt to death in a fire disaster that occurred on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at Mararaba, near Abuja.

The bereaved father and husband, Mr. Dominic Onu Ojobo, of Imufu Enugu- Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, lost his wife and six children to the inferno which started after they had retired to bed on the fateful day.

It was gathered that the family were planning to travel to the village the next day being Thursday, December 31, 2015 to celebrate the New Year but were unfortunately killed by the midnight fire.

According to Vanguard, the remains of the seven members of the family, including those of the wife, Ifeoma and the first daughter, Mmesoma, were buried in three separate graves amid wailing and sobbing by relatives and other sympathisers on the New Year eve at their family land in Imufu.

Ifeoma was said to be carrying her last child who was crying at the time they were retiring to bed on her chest when death came calling.

Mr Ojobo, the only survvor of the inferno was said to be lying unconscious at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja at the time of filing this report.

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