Crime

Fire guts 25 shops in Ibadan spare parts market

The Araromi Spare parts market, Agodi Gate, Ibadan, Oyo State Capital was in the early hours of Saturday gutted by fire with twenty-five shops affected, while source of the cause was traced to a careless burning of refuse

Penpushing reports that the General Manager Oyo State Fire Service, Yemi Akinyinka, confirmed the incident, stating that the service got a call about the incident around 2.30 a.m. through a resident identified as Soliu.

The General Manager said in a swift response the authority immediately deployed personnel to the scene to extinguish the fire around 5 a.m, adding that as at the time of this report no record of loss of life.

‘The incident was caused by a careless burning of refuse. They refused to put off the burning refuse before leaving the shop and it escalated. The impression they gave us initially was that around 45 shops were affected but when we got there we discovered that 25 shops were affected by the fire incident’, Akinyinka said.

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