One person is feared dead in a fire outbreak at a residential building in the Adealu area of Lagos in the early hours of Monday.

Confirming the incident in a statement on Monday, Margaret Adeseye, the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service’s director, said the fire engulfed the upper floor of a storey building with four flats.

“We received a distress call at about 04:56hrs of a fire outbreak at 49 Ogunjebe Street, Adealu Bus Stop, Dopemu-Agege, Lagos. It is a fire met well alight on the upper floor of a storey building consisting of four flats of two bedrooms used as residents,” said the statement. “The fire was, however, confined to the rear flat on the upper floor, where it emanated before eventually being put out.”

It added, “The building is a two-bedroom flat with household contents in it and one male adult was recovered (suspected dead). The supposed cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained as a firefighting operation has been concluded while the investigation is ongoing to unravel the cause of the fire.”