Nigeria, May 17 -- A fire outbreak on Sunday morning gutted part of a storey building in Omoda, Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State, with firefighters successfully preventing the blaze from spreading beyond a single room.

This was contained in a statement was signed by PFO Hassan Hakeem Adekunle, PRO and Head of Media Unit, for the Director of the Kwara State Fire Service.

The incident occurred at about 10:30 a.m. at No. 6 Kutashi Compound, Omoda, involving a building comprising about eight bedroom flats. Only one room was affected before the fire was contained.

The Kwara State Fire Service said preliminary findings indicated that the fire was triggered by a power surge, which ignited combustible materials in the affected ...