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Two people were injured and properties estimated at millions of naira were lost after fire gutted four buildings in Lagos and Ogun states on Thursday.

In Tejuosho, Yaba area of Lagos State, two men sustained varying degrees of injury after a storey building in the area was gutted by fire.

Punch Metro gathered that the fire started from a power surge in one of the rooms in the building and spread to other rooms.

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The fire, which started around 3pm, was eventually put out by the combined efforts of men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Lagos State Fire Service and the Federal Fire Service.

The LASEMA Public Affairs Officer, Nosa Okunbor, noted that the fire led to the collapse of the building, adding that the injured persons had been taken to hospital.

The Public Affairs Officer of the state fire service, Muinat Adeleke-Ashimi, who spoke for the acting Director, Margaret Adeseye, said the agency was alerted to the incident around 3.29pm, adding that the Bolade Fire Station responded to the fire.

Also, three buildings on Oke- Itoku Road in the Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State were gutted by fire.

An eyewitness told Punch Metro  that the fire started from one of the buildings in the area and later spread to the others.

The witness explained that the fire started around 1am and residents alerted men of the state fire  service.

According to the source, it took firefighters about three hours before the fire was  put out.

The cause of the fire could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.

One of the victims, Nurudeen Olaleye, said he lost all his certificates to the inferno.