UPDATE: FIRE GUTS OVER 150 SHOPS IN POPULAR ‘YAN KATAKO’ MARKET, ZARIA
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At the well-known “Yan Katako” market in Sabon Gari, Zaria region of Kaduna State, a fire destroyed around 150 shops.
An unnamed insider claims that the fire broke out about 1 a.m. on Wednesday and burned till the afternoon.
The fire started when Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company restored power and an electric pole fell on the roof of one of the businesses, according to the market’s chief security officer, Hamisu Buhari.
He continued by saying that attempts to recruit local fire department agencies had failed.
He said, “I finally contacted the fire service at the Sabon Gari Main Market. They asked me to provide fuel for them, which I did before they could come to the scene.”
The market’s chairman of timber merchants, Alhaji Alin Ashiru, ascribed the fire to an electric spark.
He reiterated that 150 shops had been burned to the ground, destroying millions of naira’s worth of property.
When reached, KEDCO’s Head of Corporate Affairs, Abdul Azeez Abdullahi, acknowledged the fire event but refuted the theory that an electric spark was to blame.
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