One person is believed to have died when a fire ripped through a residential building in the Adealu area of Lagos State.
The fire started in the early hours of Monday, Dec. 4. It engulfed the upper floor of a storey building with four flats before emergency responders brought it under control.
An adult male is believed to have died in the fire before emergency responders arrived.
The Director, of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, confirmed the fire incident, saying: “We received a distress call at about 04:56hrs of a fire outbreak at 49, Ogunjebe Street, Adealu Bus Stop, Dopemu-Agege, Lagos. It is a Fire met well alight at the upper floor of a storey building consisting of four flats of two bedrooms used as residents. The Fire was however confined to the rear flat at the upper floor where it emanated before eventually being put out.
“The building is a two-bedroom flat with household contents in it and one male adult was recovered (suspected dead).”
She added: “The supposed cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained as fire fighting operation has been concluded while the investigation is ongoing to unravel the cause of the fire.”
