A section of the female hostel of Isa Kaita College of Education, Dutsinma in Katsina was on Friday razed by fire, leaving the affected students in huge loss.
The fire which was reportedly caused by carelessness resulting from an explosion of a cooking gas cylinder left no fewer than 25 students without shelter.
Various valuable properties including clothes, food items, bedding and books were lost to the inferno.
Speaking on the incidence, the college’s spokesman Muntari Bala said all the students affected have been temporarily accommodated but have now been asked to return home for a week to enable renovation work to be done in the razed down rooms.
He said, all the affected students will benefit from a token palliative of between N5,000 to N25,000 depending on the gravity of their respective losses.
