About 34 Nigerian pilgrims, including Vice President Namadi Sambo’s advance Hajj team, narrowly escaped death on Tuesday morning during a fire outbreak in their hotel in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
More than 60 other lodgers, among them women and children, also escaped unhurt.
The pilgrims are performing the lesser Hajj, for which Sambo was expected to arrive Medina on Tuesday evening.
The hotel, a seven-storey building, is a few metres away from the Nigerian consulate.
Fire engulfed the fourth floor and it took the fire fighters over two hours to put it out.
A man, believed to be a staff of the hotel but who refused to disclose his identity, attributed it to electrical fault from the misuse of an electric cooker by a guest www.mannastores.com
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