The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency on Saturday said the Idumota underbridge market at Ebute Ero area has been gutted by fire. The agency’s Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Lagos. Oke-Osanyintolu said LASEMA received a distress call at about 22.20hrs.
“The immediate or remote causes of the fire incident were yet to be ascertained,” he said. He added that no casualties or injuries were recorded at the incident scene. “Properties and goods worth hundreds of millions of naira were destroyed by the inferno,” he said. He added that the agency alongside some responders like Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, and the Federal Fire Service were at the scene to prevent the fire from escalating to adjoining buildings.