Fire razes 100 shops in Kaduna market
By Mustapha Yauri
Goods fee millions of Naira had been gutted by fireplace in 100 stores at the well-liked Yan-Katato Market, Sabon Gari Local Authorities Keep of Kaduna Snarl on Wednesday.
Alhaji Mohammed Ashiru, Chairman, Yan-Katato Market, instructed newsmen in Zaria that the hearth happened within the early hours of Wednesday.
Ashiru mentioned that the market security guards told them that the hearth became ignited by a spark from electrical vitality cables that crossed over the market.
“The sparks generated fireplace particles which dropped on ceiling stalls available within the market and therefore led to the inferno,’’ he mentioned.
The chairman principal that the protection guards would possibly maybe now now not prevent the unfold of the hearth, stressing that it took the intervention of the Federal Fire Service to have it after several hours.
He sympathised with the affected shop house owners and enjoined them to take the incident in correct destiny.
DSF Abubakar Ibrahim, Fire Keep Officer, Federal Fire Service Sabon Gari, mentioned lack of ample water reservoirs delayed the fight to quit the raging fireplace.
He, therefore, appealed to authorities and philanthropists to again the service with extra reservoirs for higher service shipping.
