{"id":9623,"date":"2022-10-04T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2022-10-03T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:14:15","slug":"fire-guts-36-shops-to-ashes-in-pibor-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/04\/fire-guts-36-shops-to-ashes-in-pibor-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts 36 shops to ashes in Pibor market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By William Madouk Garang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mayor of Pibor town said Monday midnight fire engulfed Pibor market and razed down 36 makeshift shops destroying properties worth millions of South Sudanese pounds, but no injuries were recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pibor town mayor, John Gain said the incident occurred on Monday at around 2 PM and according to the initial findings the fire outbreak was caused by solar power blast in one of shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have full information but preliminary finding suggested that there is a shop of one trader called Wad-Al-Sheik who has the solar power and that solar blasted,\u201d Mayor Gain told No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper via phone call from Pibor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter solar power blasted in one of the shops, fire immediately caught curtains and then it spread to other shops, you know shops in Pibor are still makeshift. That is what ignited the fire according to data we gathered,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Gain said 36 lock-up shops were destroyed to ashes in the inferno that broke out late last night without injuries recorded but lost valued assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c36 shops were completely damaged; the shops are full of consumable goods, clothes and pharmacies\u201d said Gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was no loss of life and nobody was injured in the incident. Only several shops and valuable properties were destroyed,\u201d the town mayor stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that the chief administrator of Pibor administrative area inspected the market and he directed traders to come up with a list of traders whose shops were destroyed in the fire and assets burnt to help in evaluation of losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe still don\u2019t know the estimation of losses yet, I think there are also some shops were cash were burned inside because here we still don\u2019t have banks \u2013 if you have something you keep with those traders,\u201d he underlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor said according to the chief administrator who visited the market, the traders who were affected by the fire outbreak will not be compensated but maybe they will be exempted from paying tax for specific period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe chief administrator has asked for the list of traders who were affected and if road opens \u2013 he will give specific time for traders who were affected not to pay taxes,\u201d Mayor Gain added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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