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Distraught traders count painful costs as strange fires gut Plateau yam markets
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By Marie-Therese Nanlong
MANY traders in Plateau are now counting huge losses following the outbreak of strange fires that razed no fewer than three yam markets in different locations in the state. The traders, whose major means of livelihood have been reduced to ashes in the affected markets, have now been thrown into economic woes, not knowing what next step to take to survive.
It all started at Pangkai and Kalong Yil communities where many yam barns were razed at night after most of the owners had gone home for the day. The fire spread to other farming communities where farmers warehouse their produce in huts built with dry grasses.