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Fire Guts Borno Market
An early morning fire gutted the popular Maiduguri Monday Market destroying hundreds of Shops.
Eyewitnesses said that the inferno according to eyewitnesses started at about 2:45am raising the Markets.
The staff of the federal and state fire service responded promptly to put out the fire.
At the moment, the inferno is still on and shop owners are out to scavenge what is left.
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has announced an emergency relief of one billion naira to provide urgent support to victims, pending assessment of the incident.
The Governor’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement said Zulum made a broadcast soon after he had visited the scene of the incident and had mobilized armed forces to secure the area to prevent breakdown of law and order.