A five-year-old boy has reportedly died in a fire outbreak at the Muda Lawal Market located in Bauchi State.
Properties worth millions of Naira were destroyed in the inferno.
The fire started from a truck carrying mattresses that parked in the market since yesterday. Most of the eyewitnesses said that there a Keke Napep that parked closed to the truck, started the fire as a result of an electric spark
A five-year-old boy, who was sleeping in one of the shops in the market during the fire incident, died.Also 17 shops, 8 cars, 11 motorcycles, and 1 Keke Napep were burnt in the inferno.
Some of the youths threw stones at the vehicle of the fire service because they were angry they arrived late at the scene of incident. It took the intervention of the security agents to calm the situation.
