Properties worth N8.5million got destroyed by fire in Okolowo market, Ilorin, Kwara state yesterday night.

Shops and other infrastructure in a section of the market were completely razed. CEOAfrica gathered that no life was lost to the incident.

.According to One of the victims, Alhaji abdulaih ” a dealer in black market was filling the tank of a vehicle, a small quantity poured on the ground where a woman was cooking and immediately there was an explosion.