Fire burns down Female hostel in Jos

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The Female hostel of plateau state Polytechnic Jos campus was completely burnt by fire on Monday.

The fire which began by about 8:30am burnt burnt until at about 11:50am. All efforts to stop the fire by students was fruitless especially throwing the students and lecturers into serious confusion as everyone fled from the inferno.

According to NAN report, No life was lost as almost all the students had left for lectures. Yusuf Ade a security man in the school told NAN "No one was around to bring out anything"

NAN also reports that the fire service operatives came by 11:20pm when the fire had already burnt down everything.

The rector of the school Dauda Geymeng said that the incident was very surprising and the fire had resulted from a gas explosion at about 8:30am.

"We shall move the students to another place. I wonder why students will keep gas cookers in the hostel which is against the regulations of the school" he said.

The hostel representative miss Christiana Azi told NAN that the students had lost everything "including the originals of their credential, clothes, food stuffs and so many other valuables

"Its very shocking, it will take us a long time to recover from it"

Source: NAN


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