NOT fewer than 80 stores were, on Friday, razed by yet another inferno at Ogbe-Ijoh market in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.
The fire, which started at 11:00 p.m, destroyed goods worth millions of naira.
The ogbe-ijoh market is notorious for harbouring illegally refined crude petrol, diesel and kerosene which have been attributed for the ritual fire outbreak.
Tribune online reports that the portion engulfed by the inferno is known for fish smoking and trading on a daily basis, even as the reason behind the fire outbreak could not be ascertained.
Speaking on the incident, one Mrs Ebiere Akporiri, a trader affected by the incident, who spoke in pidgin, said: “this market fire don dey disturb us; wetin dey burn this market we nor know.”
“Around 11 for night, I receive call say my store dey burn oh; when I reach here everything burn…
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