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No fewer than 300 shops were destroyed in a fire accident that occurred in the Ladipo plank market, Orile-Iganmu area of Lagos State, Nigeria.
“The shops which were arranged in lines of 75 shops each, had five lines with four of the lines destroyed by the fire,” according to reports.
The spokesperson for the Lagos State Fire Service, Amodu Shakiru, confirmed the incident in an exclusive interview.
According to the spokesperson, “the fire was not caused by an electrical surge as speculated because there was no power supply to the market hours before the incident and hours after it had commenced.”
“Efforts were still in top gear to ensure an escalation of the fire due to the inflammatory nature of goods being sold in the market,” he added.
“We are still doing everything necessary to curtail further escalation of the fire because the items that are affected are combustible. You know that plank is a flammable material. We have begun evacuation of the debris while ensuring that the fire did not surge again,” he said.
