Breaking: Fire Outbreaks in Balogun market today

Fire guts a five-storey building at Balogun market in Lagos state in the early hours of Tuesday.

Efforts were ongoing to extinguish the fire at the time of this report.

 

The fire occurred at the Mandillas axis of the popular Balogun market.

Spokesperson of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Nosa Okubor claimed that the officials of LASEMA have been deployed to the scene and other responders are on ground to put out the fire.

He added that security officials, traffic officials, Lagos Fire Service, Federal Fire Service and other agencies are also present.

 

The cause of the fire and the number of shops affected was yet to be ascertained.

Details later...