On the eve of December 25th, Mr Luke decided to stay back in his shop to do more sales. The festive period was a time to make more sales because people stock their homes with food supplies, provisions and all they need to enjoy the holiday.
He had so many customers that day that he sent a message to his wife to come assist in the shop.
Mr Luke has a family of four. He was blessed with two lovely kids. He has no sales boy, he was alone in his shop until he asked for the wife's assistance.
The wife came with the younger kid. She had left the older one with a neighbor. When customers buy their goods, Mr Luke or his wife would help the customers take the items bought to their cars packed outside, they were very busy. Little did they know that one of them will see the mate no more.
It happened that there was a fire outbreak, I guess there was a very high voltage that caused an explosion, kind of. And then boom, fire started.
They, together with the customers on ground, rushed out of the shop while sympathizers tried to help them to put the fire out.
Just then the wife remembered that their kid was in the inner room sleeping.
She called out to her husband to help their son. Some people warned the man not to.
But he played a hero, an unlikely hero and ran in to get the child. Amidst smoke, he got the child. He stooped low and crawled out of the smoke to drop the child. At the entrance of the door, his wife got the child from him. But upon rising up, his elbow touched a metal, people say it was the door handle. That instant, he was electrocuted and his wife fainted.
He was an unlikely hero for saving his child's life but paid with his, on the eve of December 25th 2021. For Mrs Luke and everyone related to them, it was a bad way to end the year.
I pray God gives the family Mr Luke left behind the fortitude to bear the loss and grant them new reasons for joy this year 2022 and beyond.
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