Yesterday, fire gutted a Stanbic IBTC building located at Ipaja, Lagos and the bank branch lost properties worth millions of naira in a fire that started towards evening.
PM News reports that the police attached to the bank said that the fire started after a tanker discharging diesel into the bank’s generator caught fire, leading to an inferno that swept the all premises.
According to the internal source, all the branch staff and workers escaped escaped, but the cars parked within the premises were completely burnt. Also, it took hours before the fire could be put out by the men of the fire services department.
See some of the photos from when the fire started:
