There was pandemonium in the early hours of Monday, as the female hostel in the Jos campus of Plateau State Polytechnic was razed down by fire.
We gathered that the fire outbreak started around 8.30 a.m. According to an eyewitness, a student who gave her name as Sarah said the fire threw the entire school into confusion as students and staff were seen making efforts to put out the inferno.
She said, “Many students had left for lectures when the fire started; no one was around to remove anything from the burning hostel,” she said .
However, when the Rector of the Institution, Mr Dauda Gyemang was contacted, he described the incident as “shocking”, and attributed it to gas explosion which occurred in the early hours of the day.
Gyemang said, “We thank God that no life was lost in the inferno, but nothing was rescued,” he said.
According to him, the incident was “a great loss” to the institution.
“We shall move the students to another place because the building is completely burnt down.”
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