By David Orji
Ten storey Mandillas Building in Lagos has been gutted by fire on Sunday.
The fire, which eye witnesses said started about 1.30pm had destroyed properties worth several millions. Director of Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State, Mrs. Margaret Adeseye, said there was no record of any casualties in the incident.
The fire, it was gathered started from a warehouse on the first floor of the building before spreading to other floors.
Men of the state Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Police, and other emergency responders raced to the scene to put out the raging fire.
As of press time, the cause of the inferno was yet to be ascertained as rescue operations were ongoing.
Affected traders who later arrived at the building made efforts to salvage whatever they could.