A huge fire broke out in Ngara area in Nairobi in the Sunday morning incident that saw property of unknown value destroyed with a gas station among the properties destroyed.
According to reports the gas station was the first to explode and other buildings around the area in the popular Desai Road also caught fire that was spreading quickly to surrounding buildings in Ngara, Nairobi
By the time of publishing this story, the firefighters and police officers had arrived at the scene with the Police helping to control the crowds while the firefighters worked to contain the fast spreading blaze.
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The early morning incident has attracted attention around social media with videos circulating about the incident. Witnesses claim that the first ambulance from the county was spotted at around 7:30 AM.
At this time, it’s not yet clear if there were fatalities in the early morning incident but suspicions are high since the fire was spreading to neighboring buildings with the occupants feared to have been sleeping at the time.
This comes just days after another fire razed down a furniture shop along the Thika SuperHighway with reports confirming that property worth millions were destroyed in the last week inferno.
It is however unclear the cause of the both tragedies with kenyans on social media hanging onto speculations, trying to figure out the cause of frequent fires that are taking down businesses in Nairobi.
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Nairobi county officials are yet to issue a statement about the latest tragedy barely a month after Johnson Sakaja was stoned by traders of toi Market after he went to console them over the fire that razed down their businesses.