Photos have emerged showing the fire that killed people and left property badly damaged and irreparable.
Three people died on Saturday and 10 vehicles burnt as a filling station belonging to the state-owned Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation caught fire in Kaduna.
According to witnesses, the fire started around 5:11 p.m and raged for more than three hours. Some residents of Kinkinau GRA, where the fuel station is located, opposite Ungwan Muazu, on Nnamdi Azikwe Way, said as the inferno raged, they became apprehensive that it might spread to their shops and homes.
Firefighters from the Kaduna State Fire Service and that of Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company battled hard to extinguish the fire.
An official of the Kaduna State Fire Service, confirmed the death of the three people.
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