Images of fire blazing Gikomba market down.

Gikomba Market has been hitting the news for fire outbreak more often.

Is it the part of cartels The Governor of Nairobi was talking about that is responsible for frequent outbreaks of fire in the market?

The fire is believed to have started blazing at around 3 a.m in the morning. The cause of the fire is still not established.

Efforts to put out the fire began around 5 am.The traders have  explained that the police and the fire team had not managed to put out the fire, with a section of the U&I bank still burning

The Redcross team and fire rescue team are their at the moment.

Fifteen people  died and more than 60 others injured in the recent mass fire disaster in Gikomba market which was June 28 this year.

Property worth millions of shillings were destroyed.

The fire started at 2.30am  from a section that deals with timber and second-hand clothes near Kamukunji.

In October 2017, after another fire incident in the market, President Uhuru Kenyatta called for investigations to establish the cause of the tragedy that occurred barely one month after a similar inferno in another section of the market.

The government have tried to open up the market to ease its accessibility especially during disasters.

Most people are now urging the government to investigate the cause of the frequent fires in the market.

 

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