Residents in Ikotun area of Lagos state were enveloped by apprehension when an explosion rocked a storey building on Thursday.
The incident reportedly happened around 6.20pm at 17, Obalabi Street, off Governor Road.
Business owners and residents of the storey building were said to have escaped death by a whisker.
The intensity of the explosion also led to the collapse of the building.
It was learnt that fire fighters from two different stations immediately attended to the scene after distress calls.
The occupants of the building were said to have escaped to safer places on noticing that fire has erupted from the pent house of the building and this later resulted in an explosion which destroyed property worth millions of Naira.
Adeseye Margaret, the Director, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service who confirmed the incident, she said the fire was massive but was contained.
According to her, it resulted into an explosion due to the volatile furniture materials traded on the ground floor of the two storey – penthouse building.
She said there was no loss of life. “The explosion from the chemical induced materials consequently resulted in the collapse of the building,”