Fire has demolished 21 shops at Fish Market in Maiduguri, the Borno State Fire Service has said.

The fire began at around 10:30 p.m. also, went on for around three hours, obliterating property worth a large number of naira.

Representative for the fire benefit Ambursa Pindar said that starter examination concerning the occurrence by the state fire benefit office showed that an electrical start from one of the shops caused the fire.

He exhorted merchants to practice alert in their utilization of electrical apparatuses, focusing on that shop proprietors ought to recall forget to turn off such machines when leaving the market.