The Kano State Fire Service on Wednesday confirmed a fire outbreak that destroyed an upper section of a female hostel at the Kano University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil.
Alhaji Saidu Mohammed, the State Fire Service spokesman, told the News Agency of Nigeria ( in Kano that the incident which occurred on Tuesday night resulted from high voltage.
He said 30 rooms, 20 toilets, and four kitchens were completely razed in the hostel.
“We received a distress call at 09:52p.m. from one Alhaji Sagiru that there was a fire outbreak in the university.
“On receiving the information, we quickly sent some of our personnel and fire fighting vehicles to the scene at 10:21p.m. to quench the fire,’’ he said.
Mohammed, however, said that no life was lost to the fire, noting that students were still at home because of lecturers’ strike.
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