Barely five days after fire razed a 5-storey building; fire has gutted another three-storey building at Breadfruit Street on Lagos Island, Lagos killing one person.
Reports say the fire started around 2.00 pm at 46 Breadfruit Street on Friday, destroying the three-storey building housing nine flats and stores in the process.
Scores of people were injured trying to escape. One of the occupants of the building was however unlucky and was burnt to death in the inferno. The victim was taken to the mortuary by the emergency team. Properties worth millions of Naira were also destroyed.
General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr Femi Oke-Osanyintolu who was at the scene said that the relevant emergency teams were able to rescue some of the occupants.
According to him, the State Fire Service, State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Nigeria Police Force were on ground for the operation.
Oke-Osanyintolu confirmed that one person died in the inferno, saying that the fire was caused by electrical surge which triggered sudden explosion.
“The incident occurred at about 1:56 p.m. and our officials were on ground to salvage the situation. The fire was completely put off while the occupants were immediately evacuated. Unfortunately, one dead body was recovered from the inferno. Perhaps, he was trapped in the fire and could not escape,” he said.
While decrying the recurrence of the fire disaster which was recorded on the same street in less than a week, the LASEMA boss said proper investigation would be carried out to ascertain the cause in order to avert future occurrences.
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