Fire breaks out in Onitsha Main Market

 

A strange fire broke out within the early hours of Tuesday, at Onitsha main market, in Anambra State.

Main Market, Onitsha, is rumored to be the greatest showcase in West Africa and has a huge populace of dealers, who are primarily merchants of merchandise, and bargain in changed items.

A source, Mr. Barth Ifediora, who raised alert, said the fire broke out early morning of Tuesday, in a segment of the advertisement known as White House.

White House is the office of the pioneers of advertising, a sweeping two-Storey building, and has a few offices, and halls for gatherings within the to begin with and moment floor, whereas the ground floor has shops.

A source said:

“The range generally influenced by the fire is the piece of shops beneath the white house, where costly bind materials are sold.”

Martin Agbili, the fire benefit boss in Anambra State, seems not become to as of the time of recording this report.

Dealers have, in any case, mobilized to the market to battle the fire.