In what many have described as a black Tuesday, raging
inferno wreaked havoc in about three places in Lagos yesterday.
First to be razed down Tuesday morning were two buildings on
No 171 Orodu Street and No 1 Freedom Street, in the popular ghetto city,
Ajegunle, in Ajeromi/Ifelodun Local Government Area
Eye witness accounts said the inferno was caused by
black-market fuel dealer.
It was said that the fuel dealer, a woman in her middle-age
had contracted the services of one Mr. Israel, a welder, to expand her
mini fuel store-house, where she stores her products.
During welding, Israel reportedly forgot to remove a 50
litre filled with fuel inside the mini store-room, causing a spark from the
welding electrode to come in contact with fuel, thus leading to a deafening
explosion.
Before men of the Lagos State Fire Service could arrive to
the community, properties worth millions of naira had already been razed down,
even as several people sustained varying degrees of burns, and had been
rushed to nearby hospitals.
Tuesday afternoon, Vanguard gathered from eye witness
accounts that Prince Ebeano Supermarket, a shopping outlet
which offers a wide variety of items such as shawarma, clothes, foodstuff
and even hair weave, along Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, was
engulfed in a raging inferno which lasted several hours.
Also, Tuesday evening, the Makoko timber market, was engulfed in
another raging inferno today. However, the exact casualty from the tripartite
fire incidents were yet to be confirmed at the time of filing this report.
Vanguard
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