Shops Destroyed As Fire Razes Nasarawa Market (Pictures)
A yet to be ascertain number of shops have been destroyed, following a fire outbreak at a popular new modern market in Lafia, Nasarawa State.
It was gathered that the inferno, which erupted on Friday, demolished goods worth millions of naira.
Speaking over the incident, Mr. Muse Abdullahi, one of the shop owners, told PUNCH that no one could figure out the cause of the fire.
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He said: “The fire outbreak began at about 9:30 pm, and nobody could figure out the remote cause of the incident.
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“The shops that gutted fire were built with woods. The nature of the woods that were used in building the shops was why the inferno escalated to other shops in the market.
“70 per cent of the shops that gutted fire are the ones with the 40 new sewing machines that were brought on Thursday morning, including the three shops of my father. And the remaining shops that were involved in the fire incident are shoes and clothes shops, respectively.”
Also speaking over the unfortunate incident, the Director of Fire Service, Nasarawa State, Ombogus-Joshua, said that he got a distress call at about 9:30 pm Thursday that there was a fire outbreak at the Lafia Modern market, adding that he immediately had to deploy his men to the scene of the incident.
He said: “The inferno began at about 9:30 pm on Thursday and continued till the following morning of Friday, leaving properties worth millions of naira destroyed at the Lafia modern market.”
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