A midnight inferno, Monday, engulfed a section of Jos main timber shelves, situated Laranto market within the Plateau state capital.
According an eye witness who identified himself as Adamu Abdulahi, the fire started in the night, but he couldn’t give details on what was the cause of the inferno.
Abdulahi said the inferno stated at about after 11pm.
He said despite the presence of the state fire fighters, the inferno destroyed dozens of timber shelves.
“The fire started and men of the fire service, did their best as they swiftly responded, and they kept on coming with their fire fighting trucks,” he said.
In 2013, similar incident occurred in the same market, and traders lost goods worth millions of naira.
Officials of the state fire service are yet to make any statement on the Monday situation.
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