No fewer than 255 shops were burnt and scores of people injured, when the grains section of the popular Katako Market in Jos, the Plateau State capital, was Tuesday night gutted by fire, destroying valuables worth millions of Naira.
The cause of the fire was not known, but Mr. Kabiru Lawal, the Chairman of Grain Traders Association, said that the inferno resulted from a power surge.
He said: “The fire started immediately power was restored. The voltage was extremely high and this resulted into flames from some machines in some shops.”
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