A three-storey building is on fire at Kosoko Street, off Martins Street in Lagos Island. Channels Television gathered that Thursday’s inferno started from the topmost part of the building opposite Animashaun Plaza. Mr Shakiru Amodu who spoke on behalf of…
Fire guts Basorun Market in Ibadan
Barely a week after the spare parts market at Araromi, Ibadan was gutted by fire, another market has been razed overnight at Basorun. Many shops were gutted by the fire that reportedly started late Thursday night at the Basorun Market.…
South Korea slum fire: Hundreds evacuated in Seoul
Hundreds of people have had to be evacuated after a fire broke out in a shanty town in South Korea’s capital, Seoul. Roughly 60 homes are reported to have been destroyed in Friday morning’s blaze in Guryong Village. There have…
Ogun Agric commissioner loses house to fire
The Commissioner for Agriculture in Ogun State, Dr Adeola Odedina, on Monday, lost his house located at Kemta Idi-Aba Area of Abeokuta to an inferno. The PUNCH Metro learnt that firefighters have been deployed to the scene to put off…
Fire guts Catholic Seminary in Kaduna
Fire has gutted the Saint Peter’s Minor Seminary in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The seminary is located at Kateri Village along the Kaduna-Abuja Highway. Although the cause of the fire outbreak is not yet ascertained. However, the…
Investigation launched after 3 people and dog die in Perth hotel fire
An investigation is under way after three people and a dog died following an early-morning blaze at a hotel in Perth and Kinross. Emergency services were called to the New County Hotel in Perth just after 5am on Monday. Police…
Lyon fire: 10 dead, including 5 children
Ten people, including five children, have been killed in a fire in an apartment building near Lyon, France, the local government says. Officials released a statement saying a “sizeable fire” broke out in a seven-storey block of flats in Vaulx-en-Velin.…
Fire razes perfume, wig shops in Onitsha
An early morning fire on Monday razed many perfume, ladies wares, cosmetics and wig shops on Kano street near Onitsha main market in Anambra. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fire, which was said to have started…
Jay Leno: Comedian released from hospital after being burned in fire
US comedian Jay Leno has been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for burns suffered in a fire at his California garage. Leno, 72, spent 10 days at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering injuries to his face, chest and…
Iran protesters set fire to Khomeini’s ancestral home
Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini two months into the anti-regime protest movement, images showed on Friday. The house in the city of Khomein in the western Markazi…