3 injured, goods worth N50m destroyed as fire guts electronic Int’l Market in Onitsha.

Yesterday, 13th October goods worth over N50m were gutted by fire were 3 people are injured as the popular Electronics  International  Market  Onitsha in Anambra  State  was engulf by fire.

The fire was said to have started around 3:00am in the morning, the cause of the fire is yet unknown, according to reports from vanguard.

“Immediately we discovered that there was an outbreak of  fire in one of the shops, I alerted the vigilante commander, Mr. Jideofor Okacha and we started making contacts  for help but all efforts were in vain as none of the fire service stations contacted responded  except  Okpoko Fire Service Station”.

Mr. Jideofor Okacha said:

“We tried to break the shop to stop the fire with our fire extinguisher, but to no avail and the security men from one of the new generation banks located inside the market brought their extinguisher but to no avail. Instead, the fire escalated, touching the double shop apartment and other near-by shops in the market.

“As it went out of control, we called the Okpoko Fire Service men at about 4.am and they responded promptly with their vehicle and put out the fire.”

He said the Okpoko fire service men were called and emptied their tank on the inferno.

He said:

“Nobody died because it was in the  midnight and people were still sleeping but some of  the  security  men with me from a new generation bank sustained various degrees of  injury  as we tried  to stop the fire”.