Breaking: Maiduguri market razed by fire

Maiduguri GSM market was Thursday night razed down by fire that has claimed properties worth millions of Naira.
ABUJAPEOPLE learnt that the fire started at about 8:00 pm and lasted for several hours before it was extinguished by fire servicemen, security personnel and members of the community.
The market popularly called “Kasuwar Jagol,” is located at Post Office area of the metropolis, providing business spaces to thousands of traders and artisans in the area.
Mr Ambursa Pindar, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Borno Fire Service who confirmed the incident, said that the service deployed five fire-fighting vehicles to the scene of the fire.
Pindar said that the service would conduct assessment to ascertain the extent of damage.
An eye witness, Mr Abdulrahman Tahir, said the fire started at one of the shops and engulfed other shops in the market.
Tahir, a cell phone vendor, lamented that a number of traders lost their goods to the fire.
He, however, said that he successfully retrieved his goods by the rapid response of the fire servicemen and security personnel who put out the fire.