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Lagos Fire: 65 Yr Old Guard Dies As Goods Worth Millions Destroyed

Last updated: March 8, 2023 8:19 pm
4 years ago By OBINNA UMEH
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Lagos Fire

A sixty-five-year-old private security guard attached to the popular multi-million Naira Akere Spare parts market in Ajegunle, Lagos lost his life when some suspected hoodlums under the cover of darkness stormed the market early Wednesday and set the market ablaze.

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According to an eyewitness who spoke to ait.liv off camera when the crew visited the scene of the incident said the suspected hoodlums arrived at the market on motorcycles with their faces covered at about 3 am and sporadically fired gunshots into the air for about thirty minutes in order to scare residents in the area after setting the shops on fire.

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