Jan 21, 2019

N500m goods destroyed as fire razes Onitsha paper shops

Goods estimated at N500 million were at the weekend destroyed by a mystery fire which razed about 300 shops at Onitsha Printing Paper Dealers market, Woliwo area of the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state.

According to an eye witness, the fire incident which started at about 7 p.m., when the traders had already closed their shops and went home, suddenly took off from SPW block and spread to EMWO and EMS blocks before creeping into empty cartons and wedding cards section and then to the nearby motor spare parts market, before the intervention of men of the state fire service from Ogidi unit.

No comments:

Post a Comment

adsense