Karu Market in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was on Thursday gutted by fire, leaving a trail of destruction and loss.
The incident started around 8pm.
Abiola Adebayo, the Acting Director of FCT Fire Service, said firefighters were deployed to the scene.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and officials are working to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the outbreak.
In a telephone conversation with Daily Trust on Friday morning, a resident, Yusuf Mustapha, said goods and properties worth millions of naira were reduced to ashes.
“It’s true; there was a serious fire outbreak at the market. It started around 8pm last night and lasted for some hours. A lot of destruction has been caused for sure. It’s really terrible. I have friends that do business in the market,” Mustapha said.
Meanwhile, the FCT police command’s spokesperson Josephine Adeh, in a statement, said policemen from three divisional headquarters were deployed to the scene.
“In response to the fire outbreak at popular Karu market in Abuja, at about 8pm, the Commissioner of Police FCT, CP Benneth C. Igweh, swiftly mobilised police patrol teams from Karu, Nyanya, and Jikwoyi police divisions alongside operatives of the Federal Fire Service to the scene to extinguish the fire, forestall any intended attempt to loot the shops therein and to protect other valuables from being engulfed. Further development will be communicated in due course,” the statement said.
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