Hundreds Escape Death From UNIBEN Hostel Fire.

Another school disaster was Thursday
averted as hundreds of female students of
the University of Benin (UNIBEN) narrowly
escaped death from an early hour inferno
that gutted their three-storey hostel
building.
This is coming barely three weeks after two
female students of Edo State-owned
Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, died
after a well collapsed.
I was gathered that the fire started at
about 1am from the last floor of the building
and spread to other floors of the Hall II of
the female hostel located inside the main
campus of the university at Ugbowo.
Each of the floors of the three-storey hostel
building is occupied by 200, 300 and 400
students respectively.
Although no life was lost in the inferno,
several students sustained injuries while
jumping from the top floors.
The injured ones were said to have been
taken to the school’s health centre before
they were finally transferred to an
undisclosed hospital for further medical
attention.