By Dayo Johnson

Akure—ANOTHER mysterious fire outbreak wrecked havoc in Akure, the Ondo State capital yesterday, as several shops, a brothel and buildings were razed to ashes.

It was a pitiable sight as owners of the shops ravaged by the fire were rolling on the floor crying and wailing, saying they got micro-credit loans to buy the goods destroyed by the fire.

No life was lost in the inferno, but reports had it that security guards employed by the shop owners sustained some injuries while trying to put out the fire.

This is coming barely two weeks after Odopetu Market was consumed by a mysterious fire outbreak.

Vanguard gathered that the fire outbreak ravaged the shops situated at Egbe Street in Ayedun area in Akure metropolis in the early hours of yesterday. Items destroyed by the fire were similar to that of Odopetu.

Food items including bags of rice, beans, bags of pepper, tubers of yams, kegs of palm oil and vegetable oil, stocked in the shops, were burnt to ashes by the fire, which started at about 1a.m., yesterday.

Eyewitness account said the fire started from one of the locked shops and spread to many others before it was noticed.

The cause of the fire could not be ascertained as residents in the area and the security guards said it happened suddenly and spread fast.

Speaking with Vanguard one of the shop owners, Bola Makinde, said she got a distress call at about 1a.m. from one of those leaving beside her shop.

Makinde said by the time she rushed to the market, all her goods were gone with the fire.