ONE PERSON IS KILLED AND THREE STRUCTURES ARE DESTROYED IN THE BADAGRY FIRE.

On Tuesday evening, a 25-year-old man was electrocuted, and three buildings, including a church, were destroyed in a fire in a Badagry town.
The fire started when one of two Camry automobiles filled with polythene bags containing petrol exploded in Badagry’s Gbaji village.

According to a credible source, the fire began at 5:30 p.m. when petrol smugglers filled the trucks with the commodity, which they intended to sell across the border.

“The community is next to the river, therefore they utilize boat to bring the petrol while it is placed inside vehicles before being transferred to Benin Republic by Gbaji-Owode road.

“The two vehicles had been loaded, it was as they were about to proceed that one of the automobiles caught fire and exploded.

“It also affected the second automobile while the drivers escaped before the outraged throng in the village could capture them.

“The fire outbreak injured the 33kva pole and one of the high tension wires dropped and landed on one man who was at the location of the incident.

“He was electrocuted immediately and died on the route to General Hospital in Badagry.

“The inferno entirely destroyed two structures and one church,” a person who requested anonymity said.

The scene of a fire outbreak at Gbaji, Badagry, along the Badagry-Seme motorway.

Mr. Abel Wusu, the Officer in Charge of the Badagry Fire Service, confirmed the event to NAN, stating that the fire outbreak was reported at the station at 5:57 p.m.

We were alerted to a fire yesterday at 5:57 p.m. in the Gbaji neighborhood along the Badagry-Seme road.

When we arrived on the site, we learned that two Camry automobiles that were fully laden with gasoline in polythene bags were involved in a fire.

“We did our best, and the fire was put out at precisely 7:12 p.m., but two structures and one church were damaged.

“One of the two buildings had flats with four rooms, while the other had only two.

” We heard that a man was electrocuted by a high-tension wire that was severed during the inferno.

“They say he died on the way to the hospital,” he explained. (NAN)