Fire razes 15 shops in Enugu

• Published date: 17 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Not less than fifteen shops with goods worth millions have been razed at Agbani Road, in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State.

The incident, our correspondent, gathered happened on Monday night.

The affected shops were located at the popular Garriki Market, Enugu.

Residents of the area said that a shopping plaza that housed electrical shops, hair saloons, phone accessories, Cafeteria and motor/motorcycle spare parts, were destroyed in the incident, which residents said, started from a refuse dump.

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It was further learnt that the entire building would have been completely razed but for the intervention of residents who raced to the area on time to help douse the raging inferno.

He said: 'I don't know what actually caused the fire incident. I heard that someone set fire to a refuse in the gutter when they closed for business yesterday and the fire spread and caught the building that housed the shops.

'We also learned that the fire was caused by a...