Again, fire guts Kano Kurmi market

Hamilton Nwosa
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A mid-night fire on Tuesday gutted the famous Kurmi market in Kano metropolis, destroying property worth millions of Naira.

It was gathered that the incident happened at about 11:45 p.m.

The Director of the Fire Service, Alhaji Mustapha Rulwan, confirmed the incident.

Rulwan said his office got distress calls around 10 p.m. but that men of the Service were able to quench the fire around 1 a.m.

“We were lucky to have quenched the inferno within a short time of our arrival at the scene of the incident. “We are still trying to know the actual number of shops affected as the incident happened in the night,” Rulwan said.

He said the cause of the inferno was still unknown but advised people to take precautionary measures while using fire.

The market had been gutted by fire in the past

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