It was a sad Wednesday in Festac town as a building was engulfed in fire.
The fire started at approximately 2pm in the afternoon on the 21 road axis of Festac town, Amuwo-Odofin LGA, Lagos state.
According to our source, before the fire started there were series of loud explosion-like noise heard from the property before the fire started
Sadly there was no occupants in the residential building around when the fire started.
Efforts from the federal fire service was made and the fire was put out without spreading to adjoining houses.
Cause of the fire was said to be explosion of inverter batteries in the house.
The building was badly burnt and there were little or nothing saved and no lives were lost or persons injured