By Stanley Onyekwere
There was palpable tension yesterday, in the wake of three separate fire outbreaks that engulfed markets Wuse, Gwarinpa and Karmo areas of Abuja, the nation’s capital city.
Confirming the incidences via phone call, Head of Operations of the FCT Fire, Amiola Adebayo said the fire incidences occurred between 7:30 pm on Tuesday evening and 4am on Wednesday morning.
Adebayo disclosed that men of the Fire Service had first responded to a distress call at a residential building behind the First Forty hotel in Wuse 2, before they were alerted to a fire outbreak at the Karmo market at about midnight, and then the I.C World Emporium at 4am in the Gwarinpa Estate.
“It is true. The exact time, I will get it across to you. They happened midnight. There is one that happened around 7:30 pm yesterday, that was behind First Forty Hotel, in Wuse 2. That one is a building being used as a commercial.
“Then, we came back from that place, in the midnight, early in the morning today, another one happened in Karmo, from there we went to I.C mall again”, he said.
Recall that two separate videos posted on X (formerly Twitter) by @gistreel and @danielK2465, showed the moment the fire engulfed the IC World Shopping mall in Gwarinpa, and first responders trying to quench the fire in the Karmo market.
It was gathered that no casualty has yet been confirmed, as of the time of filing this report.
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