Fire has razed 150 improvised shops at the Kachako Central Market in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State.
This was disclosed via a statement issued on Monday by the spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi.
Abdullahi said the incident occurred on Monday afternoon.
He stated: “We received a distress call at Takai Fire Station at about 01:13p.m from the Local Government Security Service Unit and we immediately sent our rescue team to the scene at about 01:21 p.m to stop the fire from spreading to the other shops.
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“The dimension of the market premises is about 2,000 feet by 1,500 feet used as a central market.
“We successfully saved about 800 shelters from the fire in the state.”
He added that it was suspected that the fire was caused by smokers at the market.
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