BOY SUBSTAINS SERIOUS BURN FROM KEROSENE STOVE IN AKWA IBOM STATE

 

Tragedy struck on sunday  in Ikot Iyire, Ikot Abasi LGA of Akwa Ibom state  for 11 year-old Master Emmanuel Ephraim Sunday who sustained serious burns from a  fire incidents caused by a stove explosion resulting from adulterated kerosene , Since then, life has been hell. The Primary 4 pupil of UBE Primary School, Itam, Akwa Ibom State, has been  in severe anguish  since Sunday, 6th May, 2018,

The poor boy is still agonizing in pains at the St Athanasius' Hospital, Abak Road Housing, Uyo, where he was rushed to shortly after the fire incident.

Family source, said  Emmanuel went to the kitchen to light up the stove to boil water to make garri. Which is not his first time.
"His attempts to light up the stove were proving unsuccessful and on closer examination, he discovered there wasn’t kerosene in it. His nursing mother sent him, being the eldest, to buy kerosene at a filling station but since there was no product there he returned to No 4 Ikot Ndem Street, Off Calabar Itu Highway, where he bought the kerosene", the family source said.
 "After pouring the kerosene into the stove reservoir, in an attempt to light it, that was when an explosion ensued.

"Before he knew it, fire had engulfed the whole kitchen, leaving him severely burnt. His screams for help attracted his nursing mother and neighbours who came to the rescue, put out the fire and rushed him to the hospital", the family member said.