Multiple High Rise Building Collapses, As Fire Razes Lagos Market

By Akinwale Kasali

Less than 24 hours after Firefighters and other emergency officials put off the fire that razed the Apongbon Market in Lagos, another fire disaster has befallen the Dosunmu Market and traders are counting their loses.

The inferno led to the collapse of  four storey high rise buildings. Properties worth hundreds of millions were destroyed and lost.

The buildings were said to have caved in due to the intensity of the fire that had continued to rage since it emanated on Tuesday at about 11.10 a.m inside the market in Lagos Island Local Government Area of the State.

It was gathered that the fire disaster emanated from a section of the market and started spreading to adjoining buildings due to high inflammable materials stocked by the traders inside their stores in the affected buildings.

The fire could have spread beyond the market but the intervention of emergency officials attached to the Lagos State fire service and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA,  curtailed the inferno from spreading further.

Confirming the incident, Ibrahim Farinloye, the the Southwest Coordinator for National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and the Head, Public Education, Lagos State Fire Service, Amodu Shakiru, disclosed that efforts have been intensified to put it out.