{"id":2275,"date":"2017-11-14T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2017-11-14T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:57:35","slug":"fire-outbreak-multimillion-market-destroyed-in-akure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/fire-outbreak-multimillion-market-destroyed-in-akure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Outbreak: MultiMillion Market Destroyed In Akure"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nov 14, 2017: Tragedy struck at a market in Road Block area of Akure, the Ondo State capital on Tuesday, following a fire outbreak that destroyed scores of shops which contained multi-million naira goods.<\/p>\n
It was gathered that the incident happened in the morning when there was nobody around the area.<\/p>\n
According to a source, some of the items destroyed by the fire included food items, barbing equipment, tailoring materials, among others.<\/p>\n
The source said, \u201cThe fire incident started around 2am in the market and spread to the locked up shops in the market.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe it was caused by power surge somewhere in the market, because there was no one around when it started.\u201d<\/p>\n
The source added that the fire would not have wrecked much havoc if the men of the Ondo State Fire Service had come on time after a distress call was put across to them.<\/p>\n
Another source narrated that some of the affected traders had just stocked their shops in preparation for the Christmas period.<\/p>\n
To this end, the affected traders have appealed to the state government and the National Emergency Management Agency to come to their aid.<\/p>\n
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Nov 14, 2017: Tragedy struck at a market in Road Block area of Akure, the Ondo State capital on Tuesday, following a fire outbreak that destroyed scores of shops which contained multi-million naira goods. It was gathered that the incident happened in the morning when there was nobody around the area. According to a source, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n