Posted on: 06:59 Wed, 14 Oct 2015



On Tuesday, goods worth over N50 million were gutted by fire while three people were injured at the popular Electronics International Market Onitsha in Anambra State.The cause of the fire isn't yet known but the inferno was said to have started at about 3.am from one of the shops inside the market.

According to an eye witness:

“Immediately we discovered that there was
an outbreak of fire in one of the shops, I
alerted the vigilante commander, Mr.
Jideofor Okacha and we started making
contacts for help but all efforts were in
vain as none of the fire service stations
contacted responded except Okpoko Fire
Service Station”.

Mr. Jideofor Okacha said:

“We tried to break the shop to stop the fire
with our fire extinguisher, but to no avail
and the security men from one of the new
generation banks located inside the market brought their extinguisher but to no avail.

Instead, the fire escalated, touching the double shop apartment and other near-by
shops in the market.

“As it went out of control, we called the Okpoko Fire Service men at about 4.am
and they responded promptly with their
vehicle and put out the fire.”

He said the Okpoko fire service men were called and emptied their tank on the inferno.

He said:

“Nobody died because it was in the
midnight and people were still sleeping but some of the security men with me from a new generation bank sustained various degrees of injury as we tried to stop the fire”.

Source:- Vanguard