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Fire Guts Omoliha Market In Torit

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25.2. 2012. Another fire outbreak razed Omoliha market, a place directly opposite to Omoliha Bus Park in Torit, the capital of Eastern Equatoria State. In the latest fate, unlike the first one which occurred on 1.2.2012. Omoliha market opposite, this time round several South Sudanese and Northern Sudanese traders have lost dependable goods to ashes as hysterical fire continue to defiantly consume them without intervention from the office of fire brigade/civil defense, eyewitnesses at the scene have lamented. One of the fire victims, a Sudanese national identified as Mr. Mohamed Ismail, 62, who runs a business with his Uncle, Mr. Abdurahaman Mohamed Ahmed, had his several goods gutted, among them are scores of fruitful smoking containers known as shishas, boxes of cigarettes, 50 bags of sugar of 50 Kgs, 45 bags of flour of 50 Kgs, 25 bags of Egyptian beans known as fulmosir of 110 Kgs, 15 bags of dates.  According to Mohamed Ismail with his fellow affected colleagues, the fire started at a tea cafe belonging to a Mr. Jalika but others dint know the cause; those eyewitnesses who were close insisted that the fire resulted from Jalika’s cooking stove.

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Sunday, March 1, 2015 - 07:00
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