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| Electric power surge in one of the shops at a section of the plaza in Trinity Spare Parts Market caused fire outbreak yesterday at about 3pm in the Olodi Apapa are of Ajegunle, Lagos. |
It is alleged that more that 150 shops, including materials were consumed in the fire.
According to Punch, the fire outbreak started from a shop on the 'B' line of the market few minutes after the Power Holding Company of Nigeria restored power to the shopping complex.
A distressed trader, Mr Izuchukwu Agwu , said "I'm finished. As you are seeing am here. I have lost everything i have to this fire incident. Unless something is done, i am heading back to the village and you know what it means, suicide. I sleep in my shop and i have no other business here. I was lucky not to have been in there when the fire started. Who knows, i might have been burnt. Now, what else do i have? I am heading to the village tonight."
The director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Rasak Fadipe, said the fire was aggravated by the inflammable materials stored in most of the shops in the market.
Culled from The Punch
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