Night Fire Guts Popular Abuja Market

Karu Market, located in the suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja was gutted by fire on Thursday night.

Pictures trending online captured red flames of fire razing shops as smoke billowed into the dark sky.

The cause of the fire and other details about the incident could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.

GWG.ng reports that the police intervened by mobilising its officers from three divisions to safeguard property as firefighters arrived the scene.

The spokesperson of the FCT police, Josephine Adeh, in a statement observing police activity after the fire broke out sometime around 8.00 pm said:

“In response to the fire outbreak at popular Karu market in Abuja, at about 8pm, the Commissioner of Police FCT, CP Benneth C. Igweh, swiftly mobilised police patrol teams from Karu, Nyanya, and Jikwoyi police divisions alongside operatives of the Federal Fire Service to the scene to extinguish the fire, forestall any intended attempt to loot the shops therein and to protect other valuables from being engulfed. 

Further development will be communicated in due course,” the statement said in response to the fire outbreak at Karu Market.

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