About 15 shop owners were said to have slumped due to the wildfire that razed Amu Timber, a Lagos popular plank market on Saturday morning.Some said the fire started around 11pm while others said it was around 12am.Goods worth hundreds of billions were lost to the inferno.None of those on ground knew the cause of the fire.
“It took another one hour before three more vehicles arrived. I think the state fire service could do better, ” Femi Akiola told The Nation. In a similar incident, the Lagos State Fire Service received an emergency call around 6pm on Friday to Yaya Abatan by Makunola Street, Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos, where a storey building of 36 rows of shop in an open premises of about 3 plots covering both streets was gutted by fire.
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