Fire gutted a three-story building housing warehouses with clothes and shoes in the popular Balogun market on Broad Street on Lagos Island, destroying goods worth millions of naira.
The fire was reported to have started around 3 a.m. on Thursday and was extinguished by emergency personnel.
The South-West Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the building housed warehouses and firefighters encountered some challenge gaining access to the building because of the iron bars.
He, however, said the fire has been brought under total control without spreading to other building.
Also, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), in a statement, said though the cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained, no casualty was involved in the incident.
LASEMA chief, Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, said the response team including the Lagos State Fire Service trucks and the police are presently at the incident working together to subdue the inferno.
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