Two buildings were razed on Saturday during a fire outbreak at the popular Amu Plank Market in Mushin , Lagos State.
Director- General , Lagos Emergency Management Agency , Olufemi Oke -Osanyintolu , said this on Saturday.



NAN reports that many shops and buildings at the Mushin plank market went up in flames during the fire, which started around 11 pm on Friday .
Amu market is a popular stockist of building materials ranging from tiles , planks, various imported doors, and paints , among others.



Oke- Osanyintolu said the response teams arrived at the scene in Mushin at 1: 52 am on Saturday after receiving a call that the Amu building material market was on fire.
According to him , the outbreak culminated in heavy explosions of plywood and asbestos materials being stored in the market.



“ The Lagos State Fire Service , the Federal Fire Service , and LASEMA were dispatched to the scene.


“ Due to the highly flammable nature of the wooden and polyvinyl materials, the fire continued to rage with intensity.


"There is no loss of life , two buildings have been affected by the fire while the main market with goods and merchandise worth billions of naira had already been consumed in the fire, ” Oke-Osanyintolu said.


(NAN )


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