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Fire breaks out at a shop in Somali capital

MOGADISHU — A fire has broke out at a shop in Mogadishu’s Bondhere district on Saturday.

The fire started and spread, and the flames got higher even as locals tried dropping water according to residents. No casualties have been reported.

“The past months I have been having problems with electricity,” Omar  Said the shop owner said “I went to eat breakfast and when I came back I found the shop on smoke,” he added.

“We thank God no one was injured we did our best to contain the fire before the arrival of a fire engine.” Said Ahmed Abdullahi a resident.

It took around one thirty minutes for a fire engine to put off the fire.

The cause of the fire is yet to be established but the shop owner says it was a short circuit that may have been to blame.

Source: Radio  Dalsan          Origin: View original

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