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Fire razes Baboko market in llorin

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A midnight inferno on Sunday razed down goods worth millions of naira at Baboko market in Ilorin, the Kwara State, Nigeria.Fire1

It was reported that 20 shops were completely razed by the inferno which lasted several hours. It was found that some shop owners left huge sums of money in their shops when the incident happened.

Sources stated that the inferno was triggered by a spark from an electric cable in one of the shops when electricity was restored.

Some night guards at the markets who noticed smoke billowing from one of the affected shops and drew the attention of leadership of the market to it

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The fire fighters were alerted, they came to the scene and prevented the fire from spreading to other shops.

The chairman of Ilorin West Local Government Council, Alhaji Tajudeen Zulu-Oloje, visited the scene of the incident on Sunday. He said that he received a distress call from one of the market officials around 2.00 am Sunday on the fire outbreak.

He said the council would do its best to reconstruct the burnt shops and assist affected traders.

Zulu-Oloje commended the men of the state fire service for the quick response.

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Efforts to speak to the Special Adviser on Emergency and Relief to State Governor Alhaji Duro Mohammed, on the incident proved futile. (NAN)

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