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Heavy Fire Outbreak Wrecks Sokoto Central Market

By Muhammad Goronyo, Sokoto

Just this morning as people wake up preparing to reach their areas of marketing, heavy fire smoke was seen in the Sokoto Central Market.

When contacted on the action taken to stop the menace of the havoc, the Acting Director-general of Sokoto Fire Service, Sani Muhammad Budah said all vehicles within the metropolis were directed to the market.

He added that the source of the outbreak is not yet known, “we are after stopping the menace of the outbreak before going into investigation, a great number of shops are involved, you know lives and wealth, some marketers would not be patient, they would try to go into their burning shops and may cause dangers which may eventually lead to death “,averred Budah.

Some of the good Samaritans around trying to assist remove some movable items especially within atampa brocade and rubber shops could not move closer as heavy smoke locks every entry into shops.

One of the unanimous atampa brocade shop owner said it was only two days ago he purchased over two million naira worth of materials and along with what was in the shop were consumed by the inferno.

As at the time our correspondent sent in this report the inferno, men of the state fire  service were doing their best to bring the disaster to the end.

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