Fire destroys 14 classrooms, administrative block in Tsangaya school, Kano

Fire outbreak on Sunday destroyed 14 classrooms, an administrative block and toilet at the Tsangaya Model Boarding Primary School, Kiyawa village, Bagwai Local Government Area, Kano State.

The Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, in a statement in Kano on Sunday indicated that the incident occurred on Sunday afternoon.

According to him, “We received a distress call at about 01:05p.m. from Hon. Ghaddafi Sani-Bagwai and immediately sent our rescue team to the scene at about 01:30p.m to stop fire from spreading to the other classes.

“A ground floor building of about 400 x 400 ft used as a Tsangaya Model Boarding Primary School, 14 classes, 12 offices from the administrative block and 21 toilets were completely razed by the inferno.”

He said the fire started from the solar system at the administrative block main parlour.