AEDC: Death of 5 children Mpape not caused by electricity

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•The electricity generating set suspected to have caused the fire that wiped out the family. PHOTO: CYRIACUS IZUEKWE.

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC)  has distanced itself from the unfortunate inferno in which five children died in Mpape area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on April 1.

The AEDC, in a statement by Mr Ahmed Shekarau, Head of Public Relations and Media on Thursday in Abuja, expressed sympathy with the family of the deceased.

It, however, said that the management deemed it necessary to set the records straight to correct the erroneous impression being created.

The company said that the report of AEDC preliminary investigation carried out by a fact-finding team revealed that the accident was caused by an explosion from a fuel container taken into the room where the inferno occurred.

According to records from the AEDC control room in the…

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