It was confusion all through in the early hours of Monday as fire broke out at a market in the popular Trademore Estate.
The estate is located along Umar Musa Yar’Adua/Airport Road in Abuja.
The cause of the firreis still unknown at the time of filling the report.
Also, the cost of damage was yet to be ascertained.
The Nation Newspaper had however quoted an eyewitness, Tosin Adeleke, who said the fire outbreak was noticed around 4 a.m. when the blaze engulfed the shops.
According to Adeleke, shop owners rushed to salvage what they could from the inferno.
He said: “It is sad. We are not certain about the cause of the fire, but an electrical fault cannot be ruled out.
“Efforts were made to contact both the Federal Fire Service and the Federal Capital Territory Fire Service, but the situation was intense”.
Adeleke added that residents eventually reached out to the fire service team at Dunamis Church, who arrived at the scene around 5 a.m.
He said after two hours of battling the blaze, personnel from the Federal Fire Service stations at the EFCC and Sauka successfully extinguished the fire”.
