An inferno had on wee hours of Wednesday destroyed relief materials worth millions of Naira at the Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative’s (PCNI) warehouse, Baga Road in Maiduguri.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the inferno, which commenced at about 6.00am, destroyed about 400 mattresses, a vehicle and other items in the warehouse.

NAN reports that personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), police, fire service and settlers in the area hurriedly dashed to the scene of the incident and helped in putting out the fire.

Mr Ambursa Pindar, the Public Relations Officer (PRO), Borno State Fire Service, while confirming the incident, said that a fire truck was deployed to the scene.

He said that the fire destroyed some property including an SUV that was abandoned in the warehouse, stressing that no life was lost, neither did any one sustain wound.

“We could not ascertain the cause of the fire because nobody was present at the time of the incident. No security men, nobody was present,” he said.

Pindar said that machines and equipment belonging to the Maiduguri Flour Mills, owners of the warehouse, were also not affected, saying that only the part being utilised by PCNI was affected by the fire.

When the Head of Media and Communications, PCNI, Mr Alkasim Abdulkadir was informed, he said he was yet to be briefed on the incident by the Initiative’s office in Maiduguri.