Residents of Dakibiu in Abuja cries out as fire damage their houses and their shop, hundreds of people in Abuja Nigeria are left crying as fire destroys their properties
In the Late afternoon around 3:20 pm, Fire entered Dakibiu, around Jabi area in Abuja. It stated like a small fire in one of the houses in that area, People who saw this when it started, started shouting and beckoning on others to come and assist them quench it.
The fire continued to increase as people did there little effort to quench it, the fire increased with the aid of thatch roofs and wooden sticks used in building the houses there. Many of the occupants who saw that the fire will eventually achieve it cause started bringing out their properties and their goods, Some who were not around were called on phone and they came and did the same.
Efforts by the occupants to stop the fire yielded little or no result, the fire kept on making its ways on the zincs and the roof of the houses, it kept on creeping into the wooden material used to build their batcher. The fire was quick to enter the houses in that area, until 50 houses and shops was brought down.
The people did their effort to call the Federal fire service officials, but before they came the fire had already burnt down many shops and residents houses in that place. many people who there house was burnt, were left lamenting and screaming on top of their voices, some where pouring blames on one of the owner of the shop who they claimed to have been the one who started the fire; according to one of them who claimed that his shop was burnt down, said that he first saw the fire when it had gotten on top of the roof of the accused.
A motorcycle parts dealer whose shop and goods were roughly destroyed , out of bitterness wanted to jump into the fire, but the residents who saw his plan on time intervened.
One of the official of the fire service, pointed out that, they were yet to ascertain the cause of the fire.
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