Properties, goods destroyed as fire guts 3 buildings in Lagos market

Fire has gutted three numbers of three-storey buildings and destrôyed properties worth millions of naira in a market on Dosunmu Street, Lagos Island area of Lagos State.

The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service reports that the fire has been contained.

The agency’s Director, Margaret Adeseye, in a statement, said the fir£ which was reported at 8:50 pm on Saturday, October 28, 2023, involved “a trio of three-storey buildings.”

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“Meanwhile, the cause of the fire is yet unknown as the investigation will reveal thereafter while it affected a variety of goods including key lock/cylinder, decoration fittings, and Christmas items, among others which cost could not be immediately ascertained.

There is no record of injury nor death as operations enter dampening down,” Adeseye added.

She noted that the timely intervention of firefighters limited the fire to only the topmost floors of the buildings.