A late-night inferno has razed down over 200 shops at the popular Karmo market a suburb of Abuja in Abuja Municipal Area Council of the FCT.
When ait.live visited the market, traders were seen counting their losses in what appears to be a repeat of a similar incident that destroyed their source of livelihood three years ago
Scavengers were also having a field day picking up what is left from the rubble.
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Chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council, Abdullahi Candido, who was at the market for an on-the-spot assessment said government is concerned over the repeated fire outbreaks in Abuja markets
The Karmo market fire is the third major fire disaster in Abuja in less than one year, after a Christmas day fire incident at the Gwarimpa market in December 2020 and the Kugbo market fire in January 2021
(Editor: Abaje Usekwe)
