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- Goods and properties worth millions of nairas have been destroyed as fire gutted a top rated departmental stores, the Next Cash and Carry, located in Abuja
- The fire was caused by an electrical surge in the administrative section on the first floor of the supermarket
- The employees of the supermarket blamed the fire service for getting to the scene late.
Goods and properties worth millions of naira have been destroyed as fire gutted a top rated departmental store, the Next Cash and Carry, located in Abuja. The fire was caused by an electrical surge in the administrative section on the first floor of the supermarket.
The employees of the supermarket blamed the fire service for getting to the scene late. Although there were reports of looting during the incident, head of operations, National Emergency Management Authority, (NEMA) Abuja, scotched all those charges. The agency maintained that  the people seen with goods were employees moving out the goods from the store to a safe place.
The damage done to the property could not be immediately ascertained. The Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA s will launch an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the inferno. Goods and property estimated at billions of naira were lost in the fire.
