{"id":59238,"date":"2025-01-09T05:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T05:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59238"},"modified":"2025-01-09T05:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T05:44:23","slug":"midnight-inferno-claims-mother-toddler-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/09\/midnight-inferno-claims-mother-toddler-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Inferno Claims Mother, Toddler in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tragedy struck in the Kugbo furniture market area of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), as a midnight fire claimed the lives of a 24-year-old mother, Jumai Sunday, and her one-year-six-month-old son, Nasir Rabiu.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the victims were asleep when the raging inferno engulfed their home, trapping them inside.<\/p>\n<p>Their charred remains were discovered by neighbors and sympathizers after firefighters battled the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, Lakur Langyi, the Divisional Police Officer of Karu, stated that officers responded to a distress call at midnight on Wednesday and found the victims burnt beyond recognition.<\/p>\n<p>While the cause of the fire remains unknown, investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Fire Service had yet to release an official statement at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Jumai and her son were laid to rest at Kugbo Cemetery, off the Abuja-Nyanya-Keffi Expressway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Tragedy struck in the Kugbo furniture market area of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), as a midnight fire claimed the lives of a 24-year-old mother, Jumai Sunday, and her one-year-six-month-old son, Nasir Rabiu. Eyewitnesses said the victims were asleep when the raging inferno engulfed their home, trapping them inside. Their charred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59240,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59238\/revisions\/59240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}