Mum Weeps Loss Of Baby Boy After House Burns

Isa na luvequ (Oh my child)! These were the words Veniana Sorova cried after she lost her baby boy in a house fire, allegedly caused by a mosquito coil.

Pounding her chest, she kept saying: “Why? Why my son?” Her son, Uraia Gadai, would have turned six months old this Saturday.

Ms Sorova’s residence at Nadonumai in Lami was engulfed in flames around 6pm yesterday.

“My son was sleeping in the room and I was in the kitchen peeling garlic when I could smell something burning. I ran to the room, but it was engulfed in flames. I tried to save my son, but couldn’t,” she said.

She alleged that the fire started in the room her son was sleeping in.

It is also alleged that a mosquito coil might have fallen.

“How I wish I could turn back time. I tried everything in my power to save my son, but the smoke was too thick and the flame was too strong,” Ms Sorova said.

Two houses burned as firefighters from the National Fire Authority worked to extinguish the blaze.

It is alleged that the fire started at Ms Sorova’s three-bedroom corrugated iron and wooden house.

Ms Sorova’s relative, Maraia Maravou was in tears as she described what they went through.

“The baby was sleeping and the other kids were playing in the passage of the rooms while my father-in-law was in his room."

"I smelled something burning and I ran around trying to save anyone I could. The baby was sleeping in the third room,” she said.

“My father-in-law was rushed to the hospital. He sustained some burns. Someone was able to save him because he could not walk properly.”

Questions were sent to the Police and NFA but no response was received by the time this edition went to press.

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