An explosion at a shop manufacturing and selling locally made firearms and bullet powder at the Talata Mafara Central Market in Zamfara State has claimed four lives and over forty persons sustained various degrees of injuries
The Incident occurred Tuesday evening as a result of fire outbreak.
A source who was an eyewitness confirmed the incident to TVC NEWS via Telephone
Those killed by the explosion according to our source were workers in the manufacturing outfit while the injured were traders in the market who came to help put off the fire
He added that some of those who sustained injuries were taken to nearby health facility for treatment while others were rushed to Usman Danfodio University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto
Efforts to get police reaction on the matter proved abortive as the time of filing this report as phone calls put across to the Spokesperson of the Zamfara police command DSP Yazid Abubakar were not answered.
