Just In: Panic as Fire Guts Largest Auto Parts Market in Top Southwest State, Shops Burnt to Ashes
- In what could be described as a huge loss is the fire incident at a popular market in Ibadan, Oyo state capital
- According to reports, about 25 shops were gutted by fire at Araromi Spare parts market, Agodi Gate, Ibadan and properties destroyed
- Meanwhile, Traders wailed as the fire which started in the early hours of Saturday, January 14t, raged on for many hours
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A report by Daily Trust has it that no fewer than 25 shops were gutted by fire at Araromi Spare parts market, Agodi Gate, Ibadan in the early hours of Saturday.
General Manager, Oyo State Fire Service, Rev. Canon Yemi Akinyinka, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, January 14th, in Ibadan.
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Akinyinka said the service got a call about the incident around 2:30 am and immediately deployed personnel to the place to stop the fire, The Cable report added.
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“The incident was caused by a careless burning of refuse, they refuse to put off the burning refuse before leaving the shop and it escalated.
“The impression they gave us initially was that around 45 shops were affected but when we got there we discovered that 25 shops were affected by the fire incident,” Akinyinka said.
He further said that his men were able to extinguish the fire around 5:00am on Saturday, adding that no life was lost in the incident.
Apprehension as fire guts popular southeast market, goods worth billions lost
The popular Ogbo Osisi Timber Markert at the Overhead Bridge in Onitsha, the capital city of Anambra state has been gutted by fire.
The Punch reports that the fire which started late in the evening of Saturday, December 10, consumed some shops within the Timber Market.
Details of the damage done by the fire outbreak are yet to be confirmed even as no one around the area has been able to state what led to the fire outbreak.
Fire razes police plaza, properties worth millions turn to ashes in top Arewa state
Legit.ng reported earlier that The POWA Plaza on Jos Road in Lafia, the Nasarawa state capital, has been razed by a fire outbreak, turning properties worth millions into ashes.
According to The Punch, an eyewitness said the inferno was caused by an electric spark in one of the shops in the complex around 1am on Tuesday, November 8.
Most of the properties belonging to the Nigeria Police Force turned to ashes before the arrival of the Nasarawa state fire service officials to quench the inferno.
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