Precious Igbonwelundu, Lagos, and Justina Asishana, Minna
A WOMAN and her three children, one of them three months old, was on Wednesday burnt to death in their house in Nkangbe, a suburb of Minna, the Niger State capital, it was gathered.
A woman, said to be a second wife, and her two children, were, however, rescued with severe burns.
The husband of both women was not at home when the incident happened
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Firemen arrived promptly but were hampered by securely locked doors and burglar-proofed windows, The Nation learnt.
In Edo State, three children playing at a mobile police barracks suffocated inside a stationary vehicle on Sunday. The oldest of them was four years.
Calls to police spokesman Chidi Nwabuzor were not returned.
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