The incident occurred at the Kilometer 5 neighbourhood in Douala where a house built with temporal material mysteriously caught fire and killed all its occupants.

The head of the family working with a private security company was at work when the landlord called his phone by midnight to inform him that his house was in flames.

The wife and seven children were all roasted to dead before the arrival the Fire Fighting Brigade that quenched the flames.

The head of the household watched helplessly as the coupes of his wife and seven children aged between 15 years and 1 year where pulled out of the ashes.

According to the Landlord, he heard the family singing gospel hymns earlier that evening but by midnight he was astonished by the revenging flames.