CRUEL ACT OF REVENGE ALMOST WIPES OUT FAMILY

Some of the items that were reduced to ashes by the fire included a stove, clothes, bed, wall plugs, school books and clothes.

LUYENGO – A cruel act of revenge has left an eight-year-old boy fighting for his life after his parent’s house was gutted by a fire as a result of a suspected family dispute.

Moses Zikalala, his minor son and his wife, managed to escape through a tiny window after the room they were sleeping in was engulfed by a fierce fire and filled the house with smoke, almost ending all three lives. Zikalala suspects that the bone of contention was family inheritance.
Giving details of Monday’s incident, Zikalala, a father of 20, said at about 10pm while the rest of his family was fast asleep, he had just gotten into bed and was dosing off when he heard an explosion right inside his bedroom. He could not believe his eyes when he realised that the entire room was on fire.

His eight-year-old son sleeps on the floor and quite close to the door every night. Zikalala said the minor got hurt the most as he was sleeping where the fire began.
He said the fire was so quick and violent, it caught onto everything in a blink of an eye. He narrated that in just seconds, his curtains, bed, clothes and books were on fire. Zikalala further added that there was no way out of the house as the door itself was not only on fire but they could no longer see anything as the room was filled with dark thick smoke.

 “We could not find a way out and I did not know where my son was because when I screamed out his name, there was no response. He had inhaled so much smoke and he lost his strength.
“My daughter, who sleeps in the other room was studying when everything unfolded. She also heard the explosion but there was nothing she could do,” explained Zikalala.
He said in the midst of everything and almost losing their lives, his wife used all the strength she had left to push open one of the small windows in the room and screamed for her husband to follow her as she jumped out. Zikalala shouted out his son’s name and told him to raise his hand so he could at least pull him out of the smoke.

“Just as I was grabbing him by the arms, the skin was completely removed. I could not do anything but continue to pull him out and throw him out the window to save him,” he said.
He said his son and his wife were admitted to the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial hospital and he only sustained injuries on his feet.
He shared that the skin on his son’s legs and arms had peeled off and he sustained burns on his head.

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