The Head of Operations of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja Fire Service, Amiola Adebayo, has confirmed three separate fire incidences that occurred in the FTC between 7:30 pm on Tuesday evening and 4am on Wednesday morning.
Speaking to the media, Adebayo stated that men of the Fire Service had first responded to a distress call at a residential building behind the First Forty hotel in Wuse 2, before they were alerted to a fire outbreak at the Karmo market at about midnight, and then the I.C World Emporium at 4am in the Gwarinpa Estate.
He said, “It is true. The exact time, I will get it across to you. They happened midnight. There is one that happened around 7:30 pm yesterday, that was behind First Forty Hotel, in Wuse 2. That one is a building being used as a commercial. Then we came back from that place, in the midnight, early in the morning today, another one happened in Karmo, from there we went to I.C mall again.”