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Channel: BattaBox · 2013 · Entertainment

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(Nigeria News - Nigeria Fire) The blackened ruins of market stalls, smoke still rising from the ashes of burned property and people collecting what few belongings remain in the wreckage - are just some of the scenes of devastation left in the aftermath of the fire at Ebute-Metta Lagos market.

"I heard fire, fire, fire! So I started packing my load," says Mrs Juliet whose home was burned in the fire. As she talks, on the floor by her feet, her son sleeps on a mat as they have nowhere else to go.

(Nigeria News - Nigeria Fire) See the video of scenes of devastation after fire at Lagos Market

Eye-witnesses at the Oko-Baba market describe the fire starting from just after 5pm, and although no one knows what caused the fire - many people suspect a marketer selling black-market fuel.

Millions of Naira worth of property, businesses and homes have been destroyed.

"I am finished, my money is finished," says Mr Chimeze, standing in the ruins of his business, he estimates he has lost 4.5 million Naira. "I am very bitter, I don't know what to do."

This is the fourth time the market has burned down since Mr Chimeze moved here in 1993 - but, he says, this is the worst - and that the Lagos Fire Brigade did little to help:

"They tried but after the water finished they left," he says describing the one truck that arrived. "When other people came - there was no hose - so fire consumed everything."

People are now living in makeshift shacks with their remaining property and goods stacked up in piles about them.

"I want to leave here, but there is nowhere for me," cries one woman. "I want to leave.

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