Fire Outbreak At Lagos Balogun Market

A Fire outbreak has been reported at a shopping complex on Martin Street, popularly called Balogun Market on the Lagos Island area of Lagos State.

It was learnt that men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and Lagos State Fire Service have been deployed to put out the inferno.
Many traders, our correspondent learnt, had been struggling to salvage some of their goods from the burning building.
The cause of the fire and the extent of damage had yet to be ascertained as of press time.
The spokespersons for LASEMA and the fire service, Nosa Okubor, and Adeleke Ashimi, respectively, confirmed the incident.
However, Ashimi added that another complex on Dosumu Street, about 500 meters from Martin Street, was also on fire.
“Our men are on their way there as well. We don’t know the extent of the fire yet,” she added.
Sources, however, confirmed that some traders were seen making frantic efforts to rescue part of their goods before the fire reach their portion of the building.
Already, millions of naira worth of goods have been destroyed by fire with emergency workers making efforts to put the fire under check.