A close-circuit television (CCTV) footage in which
nine-year-old girl appeared to be igniting the fire that engulfed Prince Ebeano
supermarket in Abuja, on July 17, has surfaced online.
The “massive” fire burned
throughout Saturday night till the early hours of Sunday morning, with
firefighters battling to keep it under control.
The footage, which has the date stamp of July 17, showed the
girl waddling into the gas section of the supermarket at about 7 pm.
She kept scanning around furtively to be sure nobody was watching, then picked up a lighter and strike it.
She waited for the fire to catch on before she disappeared
back where she came from.
The blob of fire she left behind exploded leading to an
inferno that engulfed the supermarket.
In another video that shows the young girl during
interrogation, she confessed that her mother took her to the supermarket.
The girl said her mother wanted to buy drinks for her sister
at another section of the supermarket before she left them for the gas section
in the supermarket.
Ibrahim Muhammad, public relations officer (PRO) of the
federal capital territory fire service, in an interview with NAN on Sunday,
said it isn’t yet known if there are casualties.
According to him, the cause of the fire has not yet been
ascertained.
“Until after the fire has been put off, we cannot say if any
life was lost to the inferno,” Muhammad said.
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