Sopurum Hotel, located in the Nkwelle community, Onitsha, Anambra State, has been gutted by fire.
DAILY POST learnt that the incident, which occurred early hours of Monday, led to the burning of a substantial part of the hotel structure.
Men of the fire service from Delta and Anambra states are currently at the scene battling with the situation at the time of filing this report.
The police spokesman for Anambra State Police Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the fire incident to Channels TV, saying the situation is under control.
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“The situation is under control. The fire started around 4:30 am on Monday, and when we got the information, our men were quickly mobilised to the scene, and they condoned off the area to avoid any case of vandalism,” he said.
Ikenga said that the fire started around 4:30 a.m. and the force immediately deployed its men to the scene to maintain law order.
“We got the information at about 4:30 a.m. and our men were quickly deployed to the scene to cordon off the area.
“We don’t want the situation where people will take advantage of the fire incident to steal properties and other valuables.
“The situation is under control; we are happy that no life was loss, our men are still there, the fire service operatives are also there,” Ikenga said.
NAN also contacted the Director/Fire Chief of Anambra Fire Service, Mr Martin Agbili, via several phone calls and text messages, but he neither returned the calls nor responded to the text messages as at press time. (NAN)
