A fire outbreak at a residential building on Bola Street, Oyingbo area of Lagos State, has claimed the life of a 103-year-old woman and destroyed several household properties.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said it received a distress call about the incident at about 12pm on Friday. In a statement, the agency’s Permanent Secretary, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed that emergency responders arrived at the scene at 12:13pm and found a bungalow with two shops attached fully engulfed in flames.
Oke-Osanyintolu stated that emergency management procedures were immediately activated, but an assessment revealed that the centenarian woman had died in the fire. He added that the fire reportedly started in one of the rooms before spreading to other parts of the building, noting that the cause of the outbreak had yet to be determined as of the time of filing the report.