A multiple explosions in the late hours of Thursday sparked off an intense fire incident in a mechanic village near the Central Mosque located in Alausa- Ikeja, at the Lagos Central Business District.
This came barely 24 hours after another fire incident gutted Mouka foam factory in Oba Akran area of the state.
Our correspondent gathered that some combustible content was been off loaded into the yard when the drums of the content exploded resulting in the inferno .
An eyewitness said,” The fire is not coming from a building, it is an empty yard used by some mechanics. They were offloading some chemical when it exploded and caused fire.”
Confirming the fire incident, the director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, who spoke to LEADERSHIP by phone, said that the source of the fire was not known yet
The director said people had been asked to vacate the premises to avert loss of lives, adding that his men were battling to put out the fire.
“We don’t want another tragedy in the place. We have asked people to leave the place,” he added.
Fadipe appealed to Lagos residents to be safety-conscious and avoid things that could cause fire accidents in their homes and at workplaces.
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