Residents were thrown into a state of panic early Monday morning as a fire erupted at a market in the bustling Trademore Estate, situated along Umar Musa Yar’Adua/Airport Road in Abuja.
The cause of the fire is yet to be determined as of the time of this report.
According to an eyewitness, Tosin Adeleke, the chaos began around 4 a.m. when flames rapidly consumed the shops.
According to Adeleke, shop owners rushed to salvage what they could from the inferno.
Efforts to determine the extent of the damage and the source of the fire are ongoing.
He said: “It is sad. We are not certain about the cause of the fire, but an electrical fault cannot be ruled out.
“Efforts were made to contact both the Federal Fire Service and the Federal Capital Territory Fire Service, but the situation was intense.”
Adeleke added that residents eventually reached out to the fire service team at Dunamis Church, who arrived at the scene around 5 a.m.
He said after two hours of battling the blaze, personnel from the Federal Fire Service stations at the EFCC and Sauka successfully extinguished the fire”.
Details shortly…
The Nation
