Tension gripped residents early Monday morning as a fire broke out at a market in the popular Trademore Estate, located along Umar Musa Yar?Adua/Airport Road in Abuja.

The cause of the fire remains unknown at the time of this report.

An eyewitness, Tosin Adeleke, told our correspondent that chaos erupted around 4 a.m. when the blaze engulfed the shops.

According to Adeleke, shop owners rushed to salvage what they could from the inferno.

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Efforts to determine the extent of the damage and the source of the fire are ongoing.

He said: ?It is sad. We are not certain about the cause of the fire, but an electrical fault cannot be ruled out.

?Efforts were made to contact both the Federal Fire Service and the Federal Capital Territory Fire Service, but the situation was intense?.

Adeleke added that residents eventually reached out to the fire service team at Dunamis Church, who arrived at the scene around 5 a.m.

He said after two hours of battling the blaze, personnel from the Federal Fire Service stations at the EFCC and Sauka successfully extinguished the fire?. (The Nation)