Leading herbal products manufacturing company YemKem office suffered a massive loss today after its factory, located in Bada, Ayobo area of Lagos got burnt down to ashes in a fire explosion that started sometime around 6:30 pm today.
According to workers, the fire reportedly started when a drum full of ethanol, exploded.
The company had taken delivery of 520 tanks of ethanol today.
The YemKem Office, two other houses and a local primary school (Liberty Primary School) got burnt. Fortunately, no life was reported lost.
