A major fire outbreak was averted on Tuesday at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State.
It took the combined efforts of the security and fire service unit of the institution to put out the fire.
The Public Relations Officer of the university, Abiodun Olarewaju, in a statement he issued, stated that the fire, which broke out at around 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday was caused by electricity surge which affected a section of the morgue where corpses are kept.
Out of about 102 bodies that are kept in the morgue, 12 were affected by the fire outbreak.
Accordingly, the Department has made detailed arrangements to duly and adequately inform those who had kept bodies (corpses) in the morgue.
Leading other Principal Officers to the scene of the incident, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, assessed the level of damage and instructed immediate repairs to the affected areas.
The Vice-Chancellor has also constituted a three-member committee to look into the immediate and remote causes of the fire outbreak.
Normalcy of academic and administrative activities has since returned to the area.
