The big market of Madina is again the subject of a large fire. For the second time in three years, part of the largest shopping center, described as “economic lung” of the country, caught fire on the night of Saturday, March 17, 2018. For cause, according to preliminary findings, a short circuit electric would be at the origin.
According to the testimony of the market administrators and the police, the fire broke out following a short circuit, when the power came back with a high voltage, after a load shedding around 23 hours. The balance sheet is huge, there are counting for the moment, no less than 352 containers and shops that went up in smoke.
Authorities at the highest level have traveled to the field to make the finding, including the Head of State, Alpha Condé, the Minister of Security, Abdoul Kabélè Camara and his spokesman who promised to convene a meeting of ‘We will ask for an interministerial meeting with all relevant departments, the market administration, the governorate to find the appropriate solutions to solve the problem definitively,’ promised the Minister of Security.
As in 2015, following the political turmoil related to the presidential election, even if this time, the reasons given for the moment differ, according to preliminary findings, losses would amount to billions of Guinean francs.
