Parts of Gikomba Kenya’s largest market demolished due to fire

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in World news June 24, 2015

Gikomba market is found in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, it was a market for vendors to sell second –hand clothes imported from western countries.

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Fire started at around 3:00am and the fire fighters responded on time, though they couldn’t fight the maze fire among the market stalls right away.

Business men and women who came to work this morning found ashes of their property and they said they lost property worth millions of dollars.

But after hours of fighting fire in Gikomba market hundreds of the vendors tried to find salvage from the destroyed property.

Benjamin Kibue the Nairobi police chief said that the cause of the fire was unknown within the market and there were no injured personnel in the area, the Kenya’s National disaster operation centre.

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