Fire outbreak destroys several shops in Kwara market

 

Early morning inferno on Monday destroyed not less than eleven shops in Alanamu market, Ilorin West local government area of Kwara state.The incident said to have been caused by a power surge, occurred around 5 am. Spokesperson of Kwara Fire Service Hassan Adekunle confirmed the incident and put the worth of the goods destroyed at N9.6 million. Adekunle added: “There was no one in the market even the security guards to notice the fire outbreak on time. A bike man passing-by was the one who saw the ravaging inferno and quickly informed the state fire service to rescue the situation.

“However, firemen did everything possible to immediately stop the spread of the burning fire to the other shops, and subsequently eliminated the fire. Out of the 86 shops in the market arena, 11 shops were affected. “The estimated property saved was N865.5 million and the estimated property lost was N9.6 million.”