It was a Black Friday for Traders at the popular Alaba International Market in Ojo area of Lagos State, as the Market was gutted by fire.

The fire outbreak was said to have occurred at the Electronic Section of the Markets as makeshift shops around the shanties in the Market were mostly affected.

The cause of the inferno is yet to be ascertain as at press time.

It was gathered that it took the intervention of the Lagos State Fire Service to arrest the inferno which could have become escalated beyond control.

According to Margaret Margaret, Director, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, said an angry mob is preventing the firefighters from quelling the inferno.

Adeseye said that the cause of the fire is still unknown but goods worth millions of Naira have been destroyed by the inferno.

 

Details Later……