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Students escape death from Enugu school inferno

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Parents and caregivers to students of Peaceland College of Education, Enugu, are thanking God as their wards escaped death by the whiskers on Thursday as a result of fire outbreak.

The inferno gutted some parts of the school’s female hostel.

There are conflicting reports about what caused the fire because some said it was as a result of power surge while others said a student left an electrical appliance on and went to class.

While many documents, including unclaimed certificates were destroyed as a result, the fortunate thing is that no life was lost in the inferno.

TNG gathered from some staff of the college that the fire destroyed the roofs, ceilings, windows, beddings among others worth million.

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The fire, it was gathered also destroyed some certificates and other credentials of the students of Naira.

Some lecturers who spoke to correspondent on condition of anonymity noted that the timely intervention of men of the Enugu State Fire Service helped the institution to salvage many of the property it still has.

Peaceland College of Education is located opposite the Matured Students Programme of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), near the popular Nkpokiti junction, at Independence Layout, Enugu.

Many students were said to have sustained injuries when students were scampering to different directions as confusion engulfed the premises.

Speaking on the matter, a student who gave her name as Chinwe Odo said, “We were in our different classes when we suddenly heard the sound of explosion and when we went out to find out, we saw fire coming out from one of the rooms in the hostel.

“Some of us, especially HND students came to school with our OND Certificates because we were told that there would be verification by people from Abuja. Those certificates were razed by the fire”.

However, a senior staff of the college, who preferred anonymity, told journalists that the destruction in the school was huge.

“Though, no student was in the room where the fire started, but we suspect that somebody might have plugged a device and forgot to put it off.

“As a result, we lost a lot. The roofing, the ceilings, a lot of things up there. In fact we cannot put a figure to the destruction. But we really lost property worth over N30 million to that fire.

“Thank God for the men of the Enugu State Fire Service. Without them, the entire buildings here would have gone into the flames”, the staff said.