Late night Inferno Destroys 56.8 Million Naira Properties In Kwara

Late night Inferno Destroys 56.8 Million Naira Properties In Kwara.

After an electric surge in one of the shops opposite the state Arts, properties worth millions of Naira were gutted by fire.

A late night Inferno has destroyed properties Worth N56.8 million Naira at a filling station on Sobi Specialist Hospital road, Ilorin, Kwara state. In a statement by the Kwara state Fire service spokesman, Hassan Adekunle said the incident occurred when a tanker discharging fuel exploded.

According to the statement, when the Brigade arrived at the scene of the incident, the ravaging fire engulfed the whole tanker due to the terrible nature of the incident.

Late night Inferno Destroys 56.8 Million Naira Properties In Kwara.

Properties worth millions of Naira were yesterday gutted by fire following an electric surge that happened in one of the shops opposite the state Arts and Culture Centre, Ilorin, Kwara state capital. During the incident, six shops at the centre were seriously affected as the goods already bought by the owners of the affected shops for Christmas sales were destroyed.

It was gathered that the incident, which happened at midnight, had destroyed all goods in the shops before the operatives of the State Fire Service could get to the scene on a rescue mission.
Speaking with our reporter, one of the victims, Mrs Anifat Adetoro, who sells ready-made unisex clothes, and fashion accessories and claimed to have restocked goods two days ago to enable her to sell the December market met her shop totally destroyed.

Mrs Adetoro Counts Her Loss

She said: “I just bought new goods a few days ago to enable me to meet up with December demands, I received a call from one of my neighbours around 5:23 am when I woke up to perform early morning prayer, and I was told that fire has burnt our shops and we met operatives of Fire Service on the ground trying to quench the inferno as at the time we got here, if not for them, almost all shops in this building would have destroyed.”

Fire Outbreak Destroys Multi-million Naira Properties in Kwara

She added that “goods in my shop alone worth three million-plus; because I also sell jewellery and I just got a piece of jewellery order to deliver to a client in Saki, Oyo state by Monday and all these were destroyed. “I want government and well-to-do people in the society to please come to my assistant because this is all my life. Our kindhearted governor should please come to our rescue”.

The statement said the firemen could put out the fire on time and prevent the burning tanker from affecting other buildings in the area.

In his remark, the Director of Kwara State Fire Service, Prince Falade Olumuyiwa, advised filling station owners to procure and install necessary safety equipment.

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