Fire razes 300 shops, vehicles in Ibadan market ~ TheNation

For the second time in three days, residents wept and wailed as the Sango plank market in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, was razed by an early morning inferno.

Over 300 shops, goods worth millions of naira, 50 sawing machines and three vehicles were destroyed.

Unlike the Christmas Day disaster, which affected mostly plank sellers, the sawing machines section was badly hit yesterday.It lost about 100 machines.

Sources said the fire was first noticed at midnight on Monday. Some people were allegedly sighted moving round the burnt areas suspiciously. The fire later spread to other parts of the sawing machines section.

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