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.
