Fire guts makeshift drinking areas

Fire has swept thru makeshift drinking areas and stalls in a non-public residential location which has been turned correct into a busy procuring and selling facility in Kitwe, end to Chisokone market.
The inferno which began in the early hours of this day has left restaurant home owners in shock and bewilderment.
A ZNBC Recordsdata crew that rushed to the placement along Inos Chomba Road realized ALL the constructions burnt down.
Eyewitnesses said the hearth from an unidentified source will salvage began around 04:00 hours.
One amongst the affected merchants Rhodah Nambeya said she has LOST items value 1000’s of Kwacha in the tragedy.
Ms Nambeya said among the drinking areas had been also being outdated as depots, the build apart merchants in nearby Chisokone market had been conserving their merchandise.
One other restaurant proprietor Gertrude Musonda said what has came about is surprising.
But Kitwe District Commissioner Binwell Mpundu has warned that officers that would possibly be realized to salvage allowed the illegality to ensue at a non-public residential location is maybe not spared by the long arm of the law.
Mr. Mpundu expressed surprise in the design at which the merchants had been doing their agencies, which he described as not conducive for any procuring and selling purposes.
He said the procuring and selling location, which also serves as a source for cheap liquor beer of all kinds and brands, be cordoned off forthwith to enable for added investigations.