The fire incident reportedly occurred at the mortuary section of Enugwu-Ukwu general hospital on Saturday, December 29th.

According to reports, the fire started at about 3pm and before they could get through to the fire service department, the three-room-morgue had been raised down.

The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, but the aftermath was the complete burning of 50 bodies at the morgue, which will need to have DNA tests conducted on them to ascertain their identity.