EKO HOT BLOG reports that three female students have been injured in a fire outbreak at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) Murtala female hostel on Saturday.
Properties were also destroyed in the incident, the second of such in a month.
The inferno reportedly started from a cooking stove and was put out by the university’s fire service.
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Public Relations Director, Prof. Danjuma Gambo, said preliminary investigations showed it was a Kerosene explosion.
The News Agency of Nigeria quoted the spokesman as confirming that the three undergraduates were in a hospital.
Gambo assured that the management was taking steps to enforce more fire safety regulations in hostels.
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