2 Harmed, N100m Property Destroyed in Ogidi Market Fire.

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Two individuals whose names were given as Matthew and Asuquo were harmed while merchandise and prop­erty worth over a hun­dred million Naira went down the channel at the  Building  Material  Mar­ket  in  Ogidi, Anam­bra State. This took after an early morning fire flare-up that wreaked devastation on nine shops throughout the weekend. 

One of the shop own­ers, Chidi Okorie, said that the vigilante young men saw a bizarre smoke exuding from the fire and made at­tempt to extinguish it by breaking into the scene, sadly, there were gallons and con­tainers of profoundly inflam­mable chemicals that supported the speed of the flame. He said the flame harmed two of his young men who are presently getting treatment in a private healing center in Onitsha.

As indicated by him, the flame expended merchandise worth over N100 mil­lion and to exacerbate the matter, he said they should burn through N2 million on each of the shops to settle them as a result of the high cost of materials at the mo­ment.