TVCE [LAFIA] – No fewer than 20 shops were On Saturday razed in a major timber market in Lafia, the Nasarawa state capital, north-central Nigeria.

Some eyewitnesses, who preferred names not mentioned disclosed that the fire outbreak began around 1am, razing about 20 shops and destroying properties worth millions of Naira.

“The effort by the residents of the area to put off the fire was not successful and the State Fire Service men arrived the scene with empty tanks.

“The level of destruction is so devastating,” the eyewitness said.