Ondo traders groan as fire razes 10 shops, 400 laptops

By Dayo Johnson Akure

A devastating occurrence has consumed astatine slightest 10 shops other the main gross of Adekunle Ajasin University, AAUA, Akungba- Akoko, successful Ondo State.

An eyewitness, Bolanle Ajayi, said the fire, which occurred Thursday night, was apt triggered by an electrical surge successful 1 of the affected shops aft which the dispersed uncontrollably.

Ajayi said the occurrence dispersed excessively rapidly for immoderate rescue effort, leaving traders stranded and helpless arsenic those who rushed to the country watched their goods destroyed by the fire.

She said the inferno that “started astir 10 p.m. dispersed rapidly from 1 store to another, reducing merchandise and valuables to ashes. One of the store owners, who identified himself arsenic Prince lamented that helium couldn’t salvage immoderate of the implicit 400 laptops arsenic his store was wholly burnt down.

He said that “l repair laptops and implicit 400 laptops successful my store person been burnt to ashes. I don’t cognize what to do; the laptops and my tools are each gone.”

Another store owner, Deborah Isaac, said she has mislaid goods worthy millions of Naira.

Isaac recounted however 4 heavy freezers, drinks and different items were consumed, adding that colleagues who sold mobile phones besides mislaid everything.

The accepted ruler of the community, the Alale of Akungba, Oba Oseni Adu, has described the incidental arsenic tragic and a achy nonaccomplishment to the full community.

He called connected the radical of Akungba-Akoko “to basal unneurotic successful unity and widen enactment to those affected, reaffirming that community

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