RIVERS: Traders count losses as fire destroys goods worth millions of Naira in Port-Harcourt

AT least 15 shops were gutted and the wares inside them completely burnt during a fire outbreak last night.

The incident happened at Bishop Okoye Street in the popular Mile three market in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.

Some of the distraught traders could not stifle their tears as they were seen crying inconsolably today.

The traders lamented that goods worth millions of naira were lost in the incident, though no life was lost.

An eyewitness said most of the traders who lost their goods deal in grains and they had just  offloaded trucks of rice and beans into his shop before the fire incident.

She added that the trader lost all the good to the fire incident.

The traders said though officials of the Rivers State Fire service responded to cries of the traders for help,  they were unable to put out the fire because they ran out of water.