The inferno started this morning while a live show was on. The station is not available at the moment. According to Alkasim Abdulkadir, a Communications Expert, the hosts has raised the alarm.
A spokesperson for the Federal Fire Service said the agency received an alert 30 minutes after the fire started and its men were able to stop the inferno from spreading to adjourning buildings. No casualty was recorded in the fire.
A late night inferno has razed the Samsung office located at the popular Banex Plaza of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. It took a combined team of different fire services to put out the fire.
Channels TV reports that not less than 30 cars were burnt in the inferno. The RRS said its men were "on ground to manage the situation." See the video below; Instagram post.
However, at the time of writing this, we could not establish what led to the inferno nor the extent of damage it has caused both in terms of lives and properties. See video below; SubDeliveryZone tweet.
The source said though no life was lost, but no fewer than 44 shops were destroyed by the inferno. This is the second time the market was gutted by fire in the last eight months.
According to the source, the alarm raised by the children attracted the neighbours who raced to the scene of the incident to save the children, but one of them was burnt to death in the inferno.
Thankfully, no passenger was burnt in the inferno though some sustained cuts and bruises while fleeing the burning bus. All the passengers' belongings got burnt in the fire.
"His action during the inferno that claimed his life fuels the suspicion that he may have set the house on fire by himself to reinforce the suicide argument.
Unidentified helicopter has crashed into Lagos building, igniting inferno Men of the Lagos Fire and Rescue Service are being awaited for further emergency operation to salvage the situation.
Properties worth millions were also destroyed by the inferno that followed the explosion. The incident created heavy panic as resident of the area scampered to safety.