Several Feared Dead As Fire Guts Adeola Odeku In Lagos

There was tension on Tuesday morning in Adeola Odeku street near Polaris Bank Hqtrs after an explosion reportedly rocked a building in the area.

The fire was said to have been caused by a generator explosion which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday.
individuals and some private company firefighters were making efforts to put off the raging fire caused by the unknown explosive.

Confirming the fire incident, Nosa Okunbor, Spokesperson of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), said officials of the agency were at the scene of the incident.

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Some residents who took to social media, Twitter precisely to report the incident have berated the Lagos State Fire Service for failing to show up at the scene forty minutes after the fire started.

Videos made available online showed a corpse being extracted from the scene while several persons suffered burns and injuries.