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Fire Consumed 3 Lives At BUA Cement Sokoto, Cause Unknown

By Muhammad Ibrahim, Sokoto

The BUA cement in a release signed and issued to newsmen in sokoto by its Acting Director Admin Services, Alhaji Sada Suleiman informed the public of an isolated fire incident which occurred at a diesel storage tank farm situated in the vicinity of one of their factories in Sokoto. It said the incident occurred whilst the maintenance work was ongoing on one of storage tanks by the third-party contractor.

The emergency and management and mitigation services were alerted and a swift response activated which prevented any escalation of the incident or damage to their main plant and equipment.

However, the management said they were able to confirm the regrettable loss of 3 lives of the third party contractor who were in the immediate area of the incident.

The statement also said they are yet to ascertain the cause of the outbreak at the depot which had adequate safety and control mechanisms in place. It added that members of the Federal and State Fire services and the factory’s fire department are working together to put the incident under total control.

At this time,operations at the plant and production were shut down in the aftermath of the incident as a precautionary and preventive measure have since resumed at the factory which was unaffected by the incident.

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