No fewer than five shops within the premises of Onitsha General Post Office, along old market road, Anambra State, have been gutted by fire.
It was gathered that the fire started at about 12:30am on Sunday, as a result of a power surge which emanated from one of the shops.
Witnesses said as the fire was about to escalate into a nearby petrol filling station close to the scene before sympathisers and local vigilance groups succeeded in controlling the raging inferno.
Goods and property worth millions of naira were said to have been destroyed by the inferno.
According to the sources, when the fire started, the security operatives within the area, raised the alarm that the post office was on fire which prompted neighbours to rush to the scene and assisted in quenching the inferno.
A victim of the incident who sells stationeries, Mrs Monica Awuruebo, told journalists that all her goods, cash and other items were lost to the inferno.
Awuruebo said, “I was called on the phone by my neighbour, a food vendor, that I should rush to the post office immediately that my shop was on fire and I rushed to the scene, behold, the shop has been turned to ashes, not a pin was recovered from my shop.
