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Traders at the popular Lagos Street Market, Benin City, Edo State, lost goods worth millions of naira to Saturday fire which started around 11am.

The storey building housing the shops is said to belong to a popular businesswoman known as Madam Lagos.

One of the distraught shop owners, Chioma Kelvin, said she got a call when she was in the church that her shop was on fire.

She said before she could get to her jewelry shop, the fire had already destroyed her goods.