About sixteen kiosks and fourteen shops are being affected following a fire outbreak at the Adeniji Adele market, Lagos State today.

According to report, the fire outbreak

The Lagos State Emergency Agency said that the fire which was caused by electrical malfunctions broke out in the early hours today from an unidentified shop.

The spokesperson for LASEMA, Nosa Okunbor noted that properties worth millions of naira were salvaged by firefighters. His words,

“Upon the arrival of the LASEMA Response Team, it was revealed that the inferno emanated from an unknown shop as a result of Electrical/Power surge thereby escalating to other shops on the array line.

“A total number of 16 kiosks and 14 shops were affected by the inferno whilst the rest of the shops were salvaged.

“Properties and goods were salvaged by the Emergency Responders (Federal Fire, LASG Fire, Nigeria Police, and the LASEMA Response Team) as efforts were made to put out the inferno completely.”