Agency Reporter
A section of the popular cattle market, also known as ‘Kara’, close to the Berger garage, along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, was gutted by fire on Tuesday morning.
The correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited the market, gathered from eyewitnesses that no fewer than 40 shops, five storage facilities, 20 residential rooms and cash, all worth millions of Naira, were lost to the inferno.
They added that the goods in the shops and storage facilities include provisions, animal feeds and food items.
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Some of the operators at the market, speaking to NAN, thanked God that no life was lost in what they described as a ‘mysterious’ fire.
The sellers in interviews told NAN that they were grateful that no one died in the incident that burnt many shops and three vehicles.
Mr. Adewale Akeweje, the secretary of the sellers, said that some of his members had removed their goods from their shops before the raging fire became uncontrollable.
He, however, said that nobody knew how the fire started.
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