NAN reports that the inferno started around 6 a.m. and continued to ravage shops at the market till midday, as some yet to be affected traders trooped to evacuate their goods before the raging fire reached their shops.
Sokoto State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Manniru Dan’iya, who was at the scene, sympathised with the victims and assured them of more efforts to end the fire. NAN, however, observed that attachment shops and other illegal structures erected at the market roads prevented fire engines good access to affected shops in the market.Bulldozers were deployed to remove the temporary and illegal structures in order to facilitates more access to fire engines and officials.
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