Many unclaimed corpses at the General Hospital in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State have been burnt beyond recognition by fire.
It was gathered that all the corpses in the morgue were burnt during the incident which occurred weekend.
The state Director of Fire Service, Engr. Martin Agbili, who confirmed the fire incident at the morgue, stated that the fire incident happened at about 12.34pm
He said that the fire was caused by bush burning. According Agbili, the fire gutted the Onitsha General Hospital Mortuary as a result of bush burning from a nearby hospital’s quarter. All the deposited corpses were burnt beyond recognition.”
Also, the popular food market near the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, in Orumba North Local Government Area of the state was also torched by strange fire. Items worth millions of naira were destroyed in the inferno.
A stall owner in the market who spoke on the situation, said that a team of policemen was quickly mobilized to the scene to prevent people from looting the shops around the market.
The Transition Committee Chairman of Orumba North Local Government Area, Hon. Ify Obinabo, who confirmed the incident to our reporter via telephone, said a committee would be setup to look into the root cause of the inferno and to proffer solution against future occurrence.
The State Police Public Relations Officer DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, who also confirmed the fire incident at the market, said that the Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng had ordered investigation into the incident.
