A
fireworks storage facility located at Oko Awo in the Jankara market
area of Lagos exploded this morning around 9am, injuring several people
and destroying several cars.
Witnesses
said the fire broke after someone mistakenly threw firecracker into the
building which hit some unsold fireworks kept there. At least eight
other buildings in the area were affected by the fire.
Fire fighters and other rescue agencies deployed to the area have managed to calm the situation.
Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday visited the site of the boxing day firecracker explosion that razed about 15 buildings and killed an 11 year old boy. Fashola said he plans to punish the owner of the store on Oko Awo street where the fire crackers were stored.
“In order to make quick business, we have lost a life, we lost property and all of us are in danger. All of these items are under one form of prohibition or the other and we have men and women at our various entry and exit points. How did they get in? How did they enter? Who imported them and who cleared them? Who approved them to come in. Those are very serious issues we must also ask ourselves" Fashola said
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