Nigeria, Jan. 5 -- A fire outbreak on Monday affected a recycling site, a residential building and a church in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State, the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service said.

The agency said it received a distress call at about 1:08 p.m. regarding the incident at No. 15, Pipeline Road, off Ekoro Road, Abule Egba.

In a statement posted on X, the agency's Controller General, Margaret Adeseye, said firefighting crews from the Agege and Abesan fire stations were immediately mobilised and deployed to the scene.

She said preliminary findings indicated that the fire started in an open space used for local recycling activities before spreading to a nearby bungalow and a church.

"One adult female suffered shock at the scene a...