Popular Marian market has been raised down by the fire. Ait.live gathered that the fire started at about 8.30pm Wednesday.
Traders at the popular Marian market are counting their losses in even in the dead of the night as fire gutted the second largest Market, Marian market, in Calabar, the Cross River State Capital.
Goods worth millions of naira were destroyed in the fire outbreak attributed to power surge by a eyewitness in a chat with ait.live.
Traders and passerby resulted to self help to prevent the fire from extending to other part of the market as fire fighter were not on ground.
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Security operatives led by the State Commissioner of Police, Abdulkadir Jimoh however was on ground to provide security and to forestall break down law and order.
Those who spoke with ait.live ,described the fire outbreak as as one too many,saying it is the second time in less than two month that the market is gutted by fire.
They called on Government to rebuild the market and help them financially.
The fire which started around 8:34pm Wednesday night, however recorded no casualty aside the goods and shops destroyed especially at the food stuff section of the market.
(Editor:Abaje Usekwe)
