An early morning fire destroyed parts of a popular foodstuffs market known as singer in Kano State.
The incident was said to have involved improvised shops and the upper building of the old Savannah Bank at the market.
According to an eyewitness, the fire began late at night and continued to destroy shops and warehouses on Monday.
“The fire could not be quenched until Monday morning with combined efforts of the fire service and other security agencies.
“The incident destroyed many shops and foodstuffs worth millions of naira,” he said.
The Kano State Fire service Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, who confirmed the incident in statement said that the fire started at about 02:18a.m.
“We received a distress call in the midnight at about 02:18a.m from one Sai’du Hamza that there was fire outbreak at the market which is in Fagge Local Government Area of the state.
”On receiving the information, we quickly sent some of our personnel and fire fighting vehicle to the scene of the incident at about 02:22 a.m to put off the fire so as not to affect other shops,“ he said.
Abdullahi however said several temporary shops were completely razed by the fire, adding that the service was yet to ascertain the cause and total number of shops affected.