By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
Calabar— Four children, three boys and a girl, of an Air Force officer were reportedly burnt to death Wednesday night as a result of fire out break from a burning candle in his apartment at the Air Force quarters along Ediba road, Calabar, Cross River State.

Three of them were burnt beyond recognition while the fourth child, who sustained serious injuries, was taken to hospital where he died.

Sources said the wife of the Air-Force officer had lit a candle in their third floor apartment of the building at officers’ quarters before she left for a vigil at the Apostolic Faith Church, leaving the four children inside.

An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, however, said the woman was in the habit of leaving the children at home.

Her husband was said to have been recently transferred to Abuja. He left his family behind at his former location at the Air Force Barracks, Ediba road.

The source told Vanguard that the timely arrival of men of the Cross River State Fire Service and the Cross River State Emergency Response Service, ERS, prevented the fire from spreading to other flats.