No fewer than 19 shops and one mosque were destroyed in a fire outbreak at Kasuwar Rimi Market in Kano in the early hours of Wednesday.
The State Fire Service confirmed the incident through a statement issued by its Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi.
According to Abdullahi, the service received a distress call from one Ahmad Tijjani at about 01:46 a.m, alerting them of the fire outbreak at the market.
The Fire Service personnel and fire-fighting vehicle were immediately deployed to the scene at about 01:55 a.m. to put out the fire.
“14 permanent shops, five temporary ones, and one mosque were completely razed by the inferno,” said Abdullahi, adding that no life was lost and no one was injured in the incident
