Fire Ravages Shops In Popular Kano Market

• A fire outbreak has razed down shops in Kano market.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Kano State Fire Service has confirmed that a fire incident on Monday razed some shops, including the upper building of the old Savannah Bank at Singer Market in Kano.

According to a statement by Saminu Abdullahi, the Public Relations Officer of the Fire Service, the fire broke out at about 2:18am.

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“We received a distress call around 2:18am from a man, Sai’du Hamza, that there was a fire incident at the market in Fagge Local Government Area of the state.

“On receipt of the information, we quickly dispatched some of our personnel and fire fighting vehicles to the scene of the incident around 2:22am to put off the fire so it would not spread to other adjoining shops,” he said.

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However, Abdullahi said several temporary shops were completely razed by the fire, adding that the fire service was yet to ascertain the cause and the accurate number of the affected shops.

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