Fire, on Wednesday, gutted shops under the Apongbon section of the Eko Bridge in Lagos State.
The fire incident, which reportedly started around 4 am, caused gridlock and crippled commercial activities around the Lagos Island area of the state.
Reports say suspected hoodlums took advantage of the situation to attack and rob unsuspecting members of the public who are now being advised to be careful in the area.
Although the cause of the fire incident could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report, it was learnt that goods worth millions of naira were destroyed by the inferno.
“Traffic from Eko bridge has been re-routed to Ebute-Ero to link inner marina. Men of fire service and other security agencies are still on the ground. Therefore, CMS bridge and Eko bridge inward/outward Apongbon is close to traffic at the moment,” Lagos State Traffic Management Agency tweeted.
