Again, fire razes market in Kano
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The fire started at about 02:18 a.m. and several temporary shops were completely razed by the fire.
By Bosede Olufunmi
Fire on Monday razed some improvised shops and the upper building of the old Savannah Bank at Singer market in Kano.
Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, the service Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Fire Service, confirmed this in a statement on Monday.
According to him, the fire started at about 02:18 a.m.
“We received a distress call at midnight at about 02:18a.m from one Sai’du Hamza that there was a fire outbreak at the market which is in Fagge Local Government Area of the state.
”On receiving the information, we quickly sent some of our personnel and fire fighting vehicles to the scene of the incident at about 02:22 a.m to put off the fire so as not to affect other shops,“ he said.
Abdullahi said several temporary shops were completely razed by the fire.
He also noted that the service was yet to ascertain the cause and the total number of shops affected.
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