Saturday 26 March 2016

Fire Guts 4,000 Shops In Sabon Gari Market

Fire has razed over 4,000 shops at the popular Sabon Gari market in Kano, leaving property worth billions of naira burnt to ashes.The fire, which started between 12:00am of Saturday to 11. 39am, was
suspected to have been from an electrical fault.Efforts by the State Fire Service and other private companies’ fire fighters could not save the situation as about 90 per cent of the market was destroyed.

The incident also affected a bank situated within the market and all other stores and shops of the market were burnt.Smoke clouded Kano horizon as a result of the fire. No life was, however, lost in the outbreak.

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