BREAKING: Lagos WAEC office gutted by fire [VIDEO]

The building housing  the West Africa Examination Council, (WAEC) in Yaba area of Lagos State has been engulfed in an inferno.

The fire outbreak happened in the wee hours of Wednesday.

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An eyewitness account in a radio programme in Lagos  said a staff of the council trapped in between some floors was observed attempting to jump through the windows of the 12-floor magnificent building to escape being suffocated.

The cause of the inferno  which started at about 6.50 am, was yet to be ascertained as of 7.15 am. The fire had broken out at the middle of the high-rise building as those trapped in the building were seen frantically calling for help.

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Report says that  operatives of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service and other emergency responder are presently at the scene trying to put out the fire,

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