Makurdi – Traders at the Wadata Market in Makurdi, Benue which was gutted by early morning fire outbreak are counting their losses.
Sources said that the fire started at about 1am on Tuesday.
A cross section of the traders, who spoke with NAN, lamented their huge losses.
They said they did not know what was responsible for the outbreak.
Mrs Philomena Samaka, a pepper seller at the market told NAN that her entire shop and goods were razed by the inferno.
Samaka said she was called to rush to the market at about 2 am when the fire started.
But she regretted that even though she arrived the scene, there was nothing she could do to salvage the situation.
Another trader, Yakubu Mohammed, who deals in kitchen utensils, said his shop worth 6 million naira was razed by the fire.
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