It was an awful Saturday for many traders at Olaleye Market, Shomolu, Lagos State, as a night fire razed 227 shops in the marketplace.
The fire which started around 2am reportedly raged for hours, destroying goods and other items estimated at millions of naira.learnt that the inferno was put out after a combined effort of firefighters from the Lagos State Fire Service and locals around the market.
While trying to quench the fire, he was trapped in a fence, sustaining injuries on his right hand and head. Our correspondent learnt that a number of shop owners trading in foodstuffs and provisions lost goods to the inferno.!” A trader identified simply as Mummy Bose, wailed, scrabbling through the rubble aimlessly. “I could not salvage anything,” the middle-aged, woman who sells rice, lamented.
“The market contained about 12 blocks of lock-up shops. Over 200 shops were affected. Shops where chickens are sold were not affected. The owners were able to rescue them.” LASEMA boss stated that although no life was lost, “property worth several billions of naira was razed by the inferno.”
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