Woman Dies After Setting Self Ablaze In Bauchi

A middle-aged pistillate has died aft mounting herself ablaze astatine the household residence of Nigeria’s archetypal Prime Minister, the precocious Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa successful Bauchi.

Eyewitnesses said the woman, believed to person been mentally unstable, arrived astatine the location successful a commercialized tricycle carrying a gallon of petrol.

The unnamed pistillate reportedly asked to spot Yelwa Abubakar Balewa, girl of the precocious Prime Minister and Chairperson of Bauchi State Orphans and Vulnerable Children Agency (BASOVCA).

The root added that erstwhile told that Yelwa was not around, the pistillate returned to the main entrance, poured petrol connected herself and ignited it with a match.

Her screams drew the attraction of bystanders, who rushed to extinguish the flames but their effort reportedly worsened the inferno.

She was aboriginal taken to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) wherever she succumbed to the injuries from terrible burns.

The deceased, said to beryllium the girl of a precocious Sharia Court justice successful Bauchi, was erstwhile joined with children.

Witnesses besides revealed that she complained of not realising that it was petro she poured connected herself, reasoning it was water, earlier striking the match.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Mohammed Wakil confirmed the incidental connected Thursday,, describing it arsenic astir unfortunate.

Wakil disclosed that the Commissioner of Police, CP Sani-Omolori Aliyu, has directed the DPO of ‘A’ Division to analyse the incidental .

According to Wakil, preliminary investigations indicated that the pistillate had a past of intelligence illness, which reportedly developed aft the commencement of her past child.

“She was rescued live and taken to ATBUTH, wherever she was admitted and her connection taken earlier she aboriginal passed away.

“The Command commiserates with her household and prays for Allah’s comfortableness and spot successful this hard time,” the PPRO said.