UPDATE: Kubwa Village Market gutted by fire, many feared dead

Fire has gutted the popular Kubwa Village market. Kubwa is a popular satellite town in Bwari Area Council, Abuja. According witnesses, sever persons were killed in the inferno said to have caused by surface kerosene tank explosion.
Although details still sketchy because the incident happened at last night, Aspheric News gathered thaat the incident razed down several shops in the market and other adjoining plazas. 

According to a source, “the main shops building has closed the gate, which signifies that market is closed, then, petty traders, Men selling OK(2nd hand wears) echoing their voices, Hausa people selling tomatoes with their wheel barrows, women selling garri and other foods stuffs along the road, children alongside their mom hustling for urgent 2k.”

“Then , I heard a sound like a bomb blast, like the sound of a transformer that just explode. I was attending to customers with thoughts that it’s the market transformer (because it almost like normal for it to blow up).

“Then shouts follow up, I look outside, it’s red.

People are running to no man’s land, some with fire on their body, some getting knocked down by car or bike, others jamming themselves.
“Then, I saw a little boy, I’m not sure he’s up to 8yrs, running towards me shouting “Mummy!!!!” fire already caught him with on his shorts, I carried him and dig him inside our plaza drainage. Thank God there’s a little water inside, tried to pull his short, his body was peeling off .

Another woman shouting “Please help me”, turned back, it was my garri plug woman, she’s as white as anything, her body is cooked from head to toe.

I took the boy and ran as fast away from the scene, forgetting that my shop is wide opened. He’s receiving treatment.
Took fire service almost 45mins to arrived at the scene he said