{"id":330549,"date":"2021-03-23T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=330549"},"modified":"2021-03-23T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T07:20:24","slug":"katsina-market-fire-a-monumental-tragedy-masari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=330549","title":{"rendered":"Katsina market fire: A monumental tragedy \u2013 Masari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1558878\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"50.656880733945\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1430384 size-full jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"Katsina market fire: A monumental tragedy \u2013 Masari\" width=\"489\" height=\"367\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Masari-2.gif?resize=489%2C367&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/data:image\/gif;base64,https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" animated-media=\"animated-media\"><\/p>\n<p>Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has described the Katsina central market fire disaster as a monumental tragedy unprecedented in the history of the state.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire that gutted the central market was unprecedented,<br \/>\nI visited the scene, the destruction caused by the fire is too much, I really sympathized with the victims,\u201d Masari told newsmen on Monday after the fire was put out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the greatest loss I have ever seen in my life, we cannot assess or quantify the quantum of damages done yet, until normalcy has returned,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Masari assured that the government would carry out a thorough investigation to determine the cause, identify the victims and assist them.<\/p>\n<p>He sympathized with the traders and pray to Almighty Allah to compensate them.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that hundreds of shops were completely destroyed by the fire which started at about 8a.m on Monday and took firefighters several hours to contain.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vanguardngr.com\">Vanguard News Nigeria<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has described the Katsina central market fire disaster as a monumental tragedy unprecedented in the history of the state. \u201cThe fire that gutted the central market was unprecedented, I visited the scene, the destruction caused by the fire is too much, I really sympathized with the victims,\u201d Masari told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8039,320,11618],"class_list":["post-330549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-inferno","tag-katsina","tag-masari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}