Showing posts with label Fire razes 150 spare parts shops in Apapa. Show all posts
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Monday, June 10, 2013

Fire razes 150 spare parts shops in Apapa



Spare parts market, Trinity, Apapa
Tragedy struck on Sunday at  the Trinity Spare Parts Market in the Olodi Apapa area of Ajegunle, Lagos, as no fewer than 150 shops, including their materials, were consumed by an inferno.
 It was believed that the fire was caused by an electrical power surge  in one of the shops at a section of the plaza some minutes after 3pm.
Our correspondent gatherred that the infreno started from a shop on the ‘B’ line of the market few minutes after the Power Holding Company of Nigeria,  restored power to the shopping complex.
The Speed Well Plaza is estimated to accommodate no fewer than  200  shops,  mostly  spare parts traders.
A  resident of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said,  “This whole incident started when PHCN restored power here around 1.00p.m.
“Not long after that, I saw a thick smoke coming from one of the shops on B line,though I didn’t know the fire was going to be this big and spread to other parts of the plaza.”
Some of the affected traders, who spoke to our correspondent amid sighing, expressed shock at the mid-Sunday fire.