Badagry Fire Destroy Two Buildings one Church, Claims one Life

BY: News Peddlers

Three buildings, including a church, were destroyed and a 25-year-old man was electrocuted in a fire in a Badagry community on Tuesday evening.

The fire started when one of two Camry cars loaded with polythene bags containing petrol exploded in Badagry's Gbaji community.

According to a reliable source, the fire began at 5:30 p.m. after petrol smugglers loaded the vehicles with the product, which they intended to sell across the border.

"The community is near the river, so they use boat to bring the petrol while it is loaded inside vehicles before being taken to Benin Republic through Gbaji-Owode road.

"The two vehicles had been loaded, it was when they were about to go that one of the cars caught fire and exploded.

"It also affected the second car while the drivers escaped before the angry mob in the village could catch them.

"The fire outbreak affected the 33kva pole and one of the high tension wires dropped and fell on one man who was at the site of the explosion.

"He was electrocuted immediately, and gave up the ghost on the way to General Hospital in Badagry," a witness said.

"The inferno completely destroyed two buildings and one church," a source who requested anonymity said.

The scene of a fire outbreak in Gbaji, Badagry, along the Badagry-Seme Expressway.

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

"We received a fire call yesterday at 5:57 p.m. on a fire outbreak at Gbaji community along the Badagry-Seme motorway.

"Getting to the scene, we discovered it was a fire incident involving two Camry cars that were fully loaded with petrol in polythene bags.

"We did our best and the fire was extinguished at exactly 7:12p.m, however, the fire had affected two buildings and one Church.

"One of the buildings had four-room apartments, 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 said he died on the way to the hospital," he added.

NAN