Traders at Serrekunda market register nightmare start to New Year as fire tears into their shops gutting goods worth millions of dalasis

By Adama Makasuba

At least a dozen traders at Serrekunda market registered a nightmare start to their New Year after their shops were gutted by fire.

At least ten shops have been burnt down to ashes by fire said to have started early Tuesday. Its cause is yet to be established.

The affected shops include foodstuff shops, meat shops and cosmetics shops.

Ebrima Bah, is a victim of the fire. His entire shop has been burnt to ashes.

“What I lost here is worth over 400,000 dalasis,” he said.

“We don’t know the cause of the fire yet, but I know it wasn’t from electric shock failure,” Mr Bah told The Fatu Network.