Tragedy: Generator Flame Kills Teenager In Bauchi

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Tragedy: Generator Flame Kills Teenager In Bauchi

Bauchi-Tragedy struck yesterday when a teenager writing the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in Bauchi State died of burns after trying to start a generator set which went up in flames. It was learnt that Mubarak Aliyu Gidado, 16, was rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching (ABTUTH) where he died two days later as a result of the injuries he sustained from the incident.

The father, Aliyu Mohammed Gidado, said his son an SSS III student of FOMWAN Model Secondary School, Bauchi, was trying to start the generator in the back of their house when the accident occurred.

He said: “yesterday around7 pmafter evening prayer my son went to start the generator.The fuel just ignited fire and the flames consumed him as he struggled. He came out of the area but his body was burnt from head to toe”

Gidado recounted that all efforts to save his son proved abortive. “The doctors gave him a 50-50 chance but his conditioned worsen and he was placed on life support machine but his heart failed and he gave up,” Gidado said

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The bereaved father expressed shock because Mubarak had been putting on the generator for several years. “As a father you can’t quantify grief of losing a child. It is God that gives and takes and we cannot question him. “I thank God for Mubarak’s life. He was an obedient child. He wanted to study Computer Science but now he is no more.

“He was a good child. The whole Islamic School students and teachers came to my house to sympathise with me on learning of his death. May his soul rest in peace,” he said.

Muktar Gidado, uncle of the late Mubarak described his nephew as full of hopes.

“He was a very brilliant child. He memorised 40 n chapters of the Quran and he had a Quran in his pocket that day. He was a determined boy, respectful and obedient”

Lawal Yusuf, Head of Daar Communications
office, Bauchi and neighbours to the Gidado at the Federal Low-cost Housing Bauchi, said Mubarak’s death was most painful because the boy was focused in life.

He said: “It’s sad, tragic. He was brilliant and always came first or second in his class. Even at his hospital bed he was reminding his father that he had Mathematics paper to write the next day”

Meanwhile, the Bauchi State police command has reported that there was a fire incident earlySundaymorning at Sunnah TV Station situated along kobi street Bauchi

The command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) DSP Haruna Mohammed said that the scene was visited and cordoned off by police patrol team attached to Township division Bauchi to prevent looters from taking advantage of the incident.

Mohammed said that the fire service department was contacted and they put off the fire with the assistance of good Samaritans in the Area.

Apart from the building, other property destroyed by the fire included , four sets of computers and other accessories.

“No life was lost and no injury sustained. Investigation is in progress to ascertain the cause of fire,” the PPRO Bauchi Police command, said