Tragic: 2 sisters burnt to death when their elder sister locked them in their room to go spend the night with boyfriend.

A 16 year old girl has locked her 2 younger siblings in their one room around 12 midnight before leaving to go frolicking with her boyfriend.

It is believed that the girls tried to escape when the fire started but the door was locked from outside.

This is the way someone narrated the unfortunate accident.

"It was 5:30 am when a neighbor came knocking on my door , SAATER! Saater!! Saater , I asked mama what happen? . she answered, come with me and see something.

I followed her to a house where hundreds of people were already standing. What has happened? , I was told two girls from the same mother were burnt to death.

How it started.


Three girls from the same mother have been staying in the same room. They leave the village to school in Makurdi.

The elderly one often leave the room in the night to his boyfriend house. She always find it difficult to come back into to the room quietly as it always take several knocks and time for the younger ones to open the room for her. Some thing she is not at home with.

Some of the shocked resident 

So yesterday, according to her, she locked the door outside with a padlock around 12 something am and head to his boy friend house with the aim of coming back early as usual.

Like I told you earlier , I was there around 5:47am with mama , the the two girls where dead lying covered in there room.

Fire whose source could not be determined had burn the mattress where the two other girls where sleeping. One of them lack oxygen and died instantly why the other tried to open the door but couldn't as the door was locked outside.

A good neighbor who came quite early spoiled the door and found the other one dead why the other had little breath and was rushed to the hospital but it was too late already.

Her dead body were returned home immediately without delay and placed side by side to her late sister.

The girl returned from her boyfriend's house close to six o'clock and met hundreds of people in his house.

A man asked, where have you gone? , the lady replied what I did not hear but later went in to found her two sisters dead.

The boyfriend came around and receive the beaten of his life. The girls school mate visited and it was cry all over. What a tragedy.

The girls parents arrived later and the dead bodies have since been taken to the village for burial. It is really a mystery how the fire came into the room.

 The girl that locked her sisters in

Vanguard newspaper.