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Fire from generator explosion kills 16-yr-old student preparing for exams

A teenager preparing to sit for his WASSCE examination has been consumed by a fire that emanated from a generating set he used to read or his papers.

Generator fire claims teenager's life

What would have a been a happing ending for the family of a Senior Secondary School 111 student, Mubarak Gidado, has ended in pains and anguish as the 16-year-old boy was burnt to death when a generator exploded while he was preparing to sit for the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination in Bauchi State.

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The teenager who sustained serious burns in the inferno, was rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital in the state where he died two days later.

According to reports gathered from the father of the late teen, Aliyu Gidado, said Mubarak, a final year student of  at the FOMWAN Model Secondary School in the state, was trying to put on the generator behind their house when the sad accident occurred.

"On Wednesday, April 22, at about 7pm, my son went to start the generator, but it went up in flames and the fire consumed him. He was burnt from head to toe.

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Efforts to save him proved abortive as doctors battled in vain and he gave up the ghost two days later.

The doctors gave him a 50-50 chance, but his condition grew worse and he was placed on life support machine but his heart failed and he gave up.

As a father, you can’t quantify the grief of losing a child. It is God that gives and takes and we cannot question him.

I thank God for Mubarak’s life. He was an obedient child. He wanted to study Computer Science, but now he is no more."

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