Tension gripped residents early Monday morning as a fire broke out at a market in the popular Trademore Estate, located along Umar Musa Yar’Adua/Airport Road in Abuja.
The cause of the fire remains unknown at the time of this report.
An eyewitness, Tosin Adeleke, told our correspondent that chaos erupted around 4 a.m. when the blaze engulfed the shops.
According to Adeleke, shop owners rushed to salvage what they could from the inferno.
Efforts to determine the extent of the damage and the source of the fire are ongoing.