Policeman loses 2 kids to inferno

PORT HARCOURT — TWO children of a policeman, Saturday night, lost their lives in a fire incident in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Dr Rita Inoma Abbey, gave the name of the policeman as Sergeant Maxwell Udoh, adding that he is attached to Aku/STB in the state capital.
The inferno which was allegedly triggered off at his Bernard Carr Street by adulterated petroleum products, also reportedly burnt the policeman and his wife. Though the two survived, their two children were not so lucky as they were allegedly burnt to death in the fire.
Abbey said the policeman and his wife were responding to treatment. “There was a fire outbreak in the residence of one Sergeant Udoh, resulting from explosion from suspected adulterated petroleum product. This ugly incident resulted in the death of two of his children, while himself and his wife were hospitalized at Police Clinic and St Patrick Hospital respectively,” she said.
Meantime, the Trade Union Congress, TUC in the state has called on the state and Federal Government to immediately take steps to arrest the rising cases of casualties from adulterated petroleum products.

State chairman of the body, Mr Chika Unuegbu, in a statement, said government should confirm from victims were they bought the adulterated product as this would help trace its original source and tackle the problem, calling on government to ensure that those behind the adulterated product were sanctioned.