Property worth millions of naira were destroyed when fire consumed the main auditorium of Christ Embassy Church, located on Billings Way, Ikeja, Lagos. The fire started at 6.30pm from an apartment which housed about 14 power generating sets. It was further learnt that the fire started as a result of power surge from one of the generating sets.
Sources said that immediately the church members noticed the fire, they tried putting it off with their in-house extinguishers. There was no casualty, but one of the fire service men sustained injury. The church lost a number of power generating sets and other property.
