Heavy fire on Thursday morning gut a three-storey building housing warehouses with clothes and shoes worth millions of naira in the popular Balogun market on Broad Street on Lagos Island.
The fire reportedly started at midnight and was said to be put out by emergency responders but it however started again around 3am.
The South-West Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the building housed warehouses and firefighters encountered some challenge gaining access to the building because of the iron bars.
He, however, said the fire has been brought under total control without spreading to other building.
Also, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), in a statement, said though the cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained and that no casualty was involved in the incident.
LASEMA chief, Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, said the response team including the Lagos State Fire Service trucks and the police are at the incident working together to subdue the inferno.
