The fire incident occurred a few minutes after 9:00 am, with personnel of the state fire service and sympathisers making frantic efforts to quench the fire.According to residents, smoke from the market fire could be seen from miles away. Some shop owners made efforts to save their wares from the wildfire.
But the chairman of the traders association of the market, Abbas Albaba, has ruled out electrical fault as the cause of the incident, as there was no power at the time the incident occurred. Chairman of the traders association in the market, Abbas Albaba, however, ruled out the electrical problems as the reason for the fire outbreak, saying there was no electric power at the time the incident occurred.Albaba said an electric control officer had earlier been employed to disconnect the market’s power source every day by 6:00 pm when the market closes, and puts on the same, in the morning.
Governor Masari expressed shock over the fire outbreak, even as he sympathised with those affected by the inferno.Masari, who visited the market shortly after the inferno, said the state government would look into the root cause of the fire.He, however, described the incident and level of destruction as unprecedented in the annals of the state’s history.
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