
JUST IN: SHOPS DESTROYED IN KANO MARKET FIRE INCIDENT
A fire incident on Monday that occured in Singer Market in Kano gutted a number of shops, including the top floors of the former Savannah Bank, according to the State Fire Service.
The incident occurred about 2:18 in the morning, according to a statement by Saminu Abdullahi, the fire service’s public relations officer.
“We received a distress call around 2:18am from a man, Sai’du Hamza, that there was fire a incident at the market in Fagge Local Government Area of the state.
”On receipt of the information, we quickly dispatched some of our personnel and fire fighting vehicles to the scene of the incident around 2:22am to put off the fire so it would not spread to other adjoining shops,” he said.
Abdullahi claimed that the fire entirely destroyed a number of temporary shops, but he also noted that the fire service had yet to determine the fire’s actual cause and the precise number of impacted stores.
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