At the Katsina central market in the state capital, desperate shop owners were seen on Monday struggling to salvage their wares as fire razed their shops and stalls.
The chairperson of the market, Abbas Labaran, told reporters that the cause of the inferno was not yet detrrmined.Firefighters were struggling to control the fire from spreading to more shops as of noon when our reporter filed this report.Governor Aminu Masari has also visited the market and expressed his sympathies to the victims.
Mr Masari said the level of drstruction makes the fire disaster one of the worst in the history of the state. The governor, however, added that the disaster was also an opportunity for the government to address the challenges of infrastructure in the market.
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