Hostel residents of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU) scampered for safety on Wednesday as a part of the male hostel was razed gutted by fire.
The inferno occured later in the evening on Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses alleged that no casualty was recorded in the fire incident at the institution’s male hostel popularly known as Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) hostel.
It was however gathered that properties owned by some of the students were allegedly destroyed by the fire as there was reportedly not enough water to put out the inferno.
