No fewer than 15 shops were razed in a fire outbreak at the popular
Owode-Onirin Market at Ikorodu area of Lagos State on Sunday.
Traders mostly, dealing in car spare parts lamented as goods worth
millions of naira were destroyed by the fire outbreak.
The Director General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency
(LASEMA), Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, who was at the scene of the
inferno said the fire emanated from one of the several lines of shops
within the market.
He said: โThe cause of the fire is unknown as there was no power
supply within the market. No lives lost but valuables were destroyed.โ
He added that the fire has been curtailed from further spread, adding
that the fire razed 15 shops before it was put off.
