Fire in the early hours of Monday razed a part of a popular foodstuffs market, known as Singer Market in Kano State.
The Kano State Fire Service on Monday confirmed the incident.
A statement by the service Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, said that the fire started at about 02:18 a.m.
“We received a distress call in the midnight at about 02:18a.m from one Sai’du Hamza that there was fire outbreak at the market which is in Fagge Local Government Area of the state.
“On receiving the information, we quickly sent some of our personnel and fire fighting vehicle to the scene of the incident at about 02:22 a.m to put off the fire so as not to affect other shops,“ he said.
Abdullahi however said several temporary shops were completely razed by the fire.
He added that the service was yet to ascertain the cause and the total number of shops affected by the inferno.
