Mysterious Fire Kill Couple After Attending Crossover Service

Mysterious Fire Kill Couple After Attending Crossover Service

  • Suspected arsonists have set a couple ablaze shortly after they returned from Cross over service in Abeokuta
  • They were killed at their Government Reservation Area (GRA) residence in the Ibara area of Abeokuta, Ogun state
  • Mrs Kehinde Fatinoye, until her gruesome death, was a staffer of the Federal University of Agriculture (FUNNAB)

In what can be described as sad development, a couple – Kehinde Fatinoye and Bukola – lost their lives in a mysterious fire incident shortly after returning from a New Year/Crossover service in Abeokuta, Ogun state.

They were believed to have been killed by suspected arsonists who trailed the couple to their private residence before setting the home ablaze.

Fire kills couple in Ogun state
Kehinde Fatinoye and Bukola – has been killed in a mysterious fire incident. Photo credit: Channels TV
Source: UGC

Vanguard Newspaper reports that the suspected arsonists also kidnapped the victims’ son alongside the housemaid and threw them into a river along the Adigbe-Obada axis of the town.

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Until his death, Kehinde was a staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) while his wife Bukola worked with the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.

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The victims were said to have been burnt beyond recognition with their remains later packed by policemen and health officials at the scene and driven to the hospital in an ambulance, Premium Times added.

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It was gathered that the thugs jumped the fence of the commission's building and set fire to it from the back.

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In another report, no fewer than seven persons were burnt alive in a ghastly motor accident at the Sagamu-Benin expressway some few metres away from Odogbolu junction. The victims of the accidents included a nursing mother, an expectant woman and two kids.

The nursing mother was reported to be a 38-year-old woman known as Basirat Adebanjo was in the vehicle with her two-year-old daughter, Abidat; Kafilah Akindele, Azeezah AbdulMajeed, Halimah Lawal, Shakirah Zakariyya and one Iya Al-Ameen.

Legit.ng gathered that the brutally burnt bodies of the deceased were moved to Dawah Centre, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.

Source: Legit.ng

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