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There was confusion at the premises of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) as an early morning fire on Wednesday engulfed the headquarters of examination body in Yaba destroying parts of the buidling.According to reports, several people are still trapped in the building as the fire rages.

The cause of the fire 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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It was gathered that men of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service and other emergency responder are presently at the scene tomput out the raging fire. Meanwhile hours later the Management of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), said documents and records store in its office in Yaba in Lagos are intact despite the fire that engulfed its office early today.

A terse statement from the examination body the fire that engulfed its facility in Lagos in the early hours of Wednesday has been put out by a combined team of fire fighters, adding that no life was lost in the inferno.

The statement signed by head of public affairs unit Moyosola Adesina was silent on the cause of the fire.

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(Sun)

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