SaharaReporters learnt that the fire outbreak reportedly started around 1:22 am on Monday, catching traders unawares as flames swept through sections of the market where grains and essential commodities are stored and sold daily.
A raging midnight inferno has torn through Dumne’s popular grains market (Kasuwan Dadi), in Adamawa State, destroying large quantities of foodstuffs and other goods.
SaharaReporters learnt that the fire outbreak reportedly started around 1:22 am on Monday, catching traders unawares as flames swept through sections of the market where grains and essential commodities are stored and sold daily.
Kasuwan Dadi is a critical grains supply centre for Adamawa and surrounding states, serving as the economic lifeline for thousands of families. By the time residents became aware, food items painstakingly stored by traders had already been reduced to ashes.
Eyewitnesses said the scale of destruction would have been worse but for the swift intervention of local youths from Dumne, Shilon, Kinde and Dimdima, who mobilised in the dead of night to battle the flames and prevent them from spreading to other sections of the market.
Mothers and elderly women were also seen working alongside the youths, risking their lives in desperate efforts to save whatever goods they could and contain the fire.
Although no casualties were immediately reported, traders suffered heavy losses as shops, grains and other market goods were completely destroyed, plunging many families into uncertainty.
Residents have called on authorities to urgently assess the damage and provide relief to affected traders, warning that the destruction of a major grains market could worsen food and economic hardship in the area.