BOXING DAY TRAGEDY: Firecrackers wreak havoc in Lagos, As Gov. Fasola Vows To Deal With Owner Of Stored Firecrackers

Buiding on Fire

After the Fire

One person was, yesterday, burnt to death and over 40 persons injured when a three-storey building where firecrackers were stored went up in flames at the Idumagbo area of Lagos Island Local Government, Lagos State.

The South West information officer of the National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA), Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed that one unidentified person was burnt to death by the raging fire.

He said: “The body has been deposited at the Lagos State General Hospital on the Island.”

He also said that 40 persons were injured, with five sustaining severe injuries, adding “they have been referred to their personal hospitals based on their demands.”

Vanguard gathered that few minutes after the explosion occurred, some of the residents ran helter skelter, following fears that a plane had crashed.

The building located at 45 Ojo Giwa Street, went up in flames at 9:30 am, destroying nine other buildings within 60 metres radius.

The fire also razed over seven vehicles, including those with Number Plates: PK 788 KJA, LG 140 LSR, CG 190 APP. They were parked on the street by the traders and their customers.

Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday visited the site of the boxing day 

firecracker explosion.  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 

usare 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

Lagos state is one of the states that has banned the use of fire crackers

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