A first-year student of the Saboba EP Senior High School in the Northern Region has reportedly died in a fire outbreak at the girls’ dormitory.

Binidan Theresah’s body was reportedly burnt beyond recognition when it was recovered after the fire.

According to some of the students, she was unable to leave the dormitory during the fire outbreak leading to her death.

The body has since been deposited at the Saboba Hospital.

Narrating the incident to Joynews, one of the students who does not want to be named said Theresah was sick and stayed back in the dormitory. The dormitory was subsequently locked to avoid anyone finding out she was inside.

Unfortunately when the fire started they forgot about her until the fire was doused and the door opened when they found her body.

Students’ books and uniforms, among other personal belongings were burnt in the fire.

Speaking to the media, the District Fire Officer for Saboba, ADO 1 Yussif Issahaku said the pump of the fire tender malfunctioned when they arrived at the scene, forcing them to resort to the use of buckets.

"This afternoon we received a call from one Issaih reporting a fire outbreak at EP Secondary School. Within a minute, the personnel were dispatched, by 13:43 hours they were at the fire scene.

“As soon as they arrived at the fire scene, the fire was raging, they engaged the pump to fight the fire but it’s unfortunate there was a pump failure. The appliance is being tested every morning and this morning when it was tested it proved positive so we were sure that anything that will come up we can tackle it, but unfortunately when they got to the fire scene the pump failed us. So they had no option than to resort to fetching the water with buckets. With the assistance of the students and the staff we were able to put the fire out. It's so unfortunate that one person has lost her life," he added,

He said as a result of the dry weather, a little heat results in fire outbreaks and therefore asked the people to take precautionary measures when they use naked fire.