Fire on Friday engulfed a branch of the Guaranty Trust Bank in the Mararaba area of the Federal Capital Territory.
The GTBank branch is located along the Nyanya and Mararaba Expressway before Abacha Road, Karu.
A Twitter user, @braunsyrup, had at 8:04 am on Friday, called the attention of the Federal Fire Service, and the GTBank to the fire incident.
The Head of Operations of the FCT Fire Service, Amiola Adebayo, who confirmed the incident said,
“Yes, there was a fire outbreak at the bank, but we have put it out.”
A report from the fire service stated that the fire, which was put out at 8:40am, was caused by a power surge from the inverter system.
It added that the fire started from the server room at the top floor of the single-storey building.
According to report, Batteries, inverter system and some furniture were lost to the fire.
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