Six traders were trapped to death in a fire incident that razed the Tipper Garage Market on 3rd Avenue in Gwarimpa Abuja in the early hours of Thursday February 5, 2021.
According to eyewitnesses, a faulty electrical spark in one of the locked up shops was the cause of the inferno.
Reports said the fire which started at midnight lasted over two hours before it was put out by the men of the FCT Fire Service. Hundreds of shops and stalls were affected.
Goods worth millions of naira went up in flames while several other traders sustained various degrees of burns while many houses around the market were also affected.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq sympathized with the traders especially those who lost their lives in the inferno.
She described the fire outbreak as tragic with the deceased traders trapped in their stalls.
The minister, in a statement by her media aide Nneka Ikem Anibeze, also sympathized with families and relatives of the dead and prays God to grant them eternal rest.
Meanwhile, the minister has since directed the National Emergency Management Agency to assess the damages caused by the fire for immediate provision of relief and intervention materials.
