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==The accident==
==The accident==
It is unclear how the fire started and it is also unclear what time it started some reports that it stared around 02:00<ref>{{cite news|title=BREAKING NEWS!!! Lusaka City Market On Fire (PICTURES) |url= http://www.zambianobserver.com/breaking-news-lusaka-city-market-on-fire/ |work= Zambian Observes|location=zambianobserver.com |date=4 July 2017|accessdate=2017-07-04}}</ref> 04:30<ref name=SSS/> and also 05:20.
It is unclear how the fire started and it is also unclear what time it started some reports that it stared around 02:00<ref>{{cite news|title=BREAKING NEWS!!! Lusaka City Market On Fire (PICTURES) |url= http://www.zambianobserver.com/breaking-news-lusaka-city-market-on-fire/ |work= Zambian Observes|location=zambianobserver.com |date=4 July 2017|accessdate=2017-07-04}}</ref> 04:30<ref name=SSS/> and also 05:20. While a police report reported that the fire started aroound 05:20 hours from one of the shops on the southern part of the market in the area called Dark yellow shops, an area where stationery and mobile phones are sold.<ref>{{cite news|title= police are yet to ascertain the cause of the fire|url=http://www.zambianobserver.com/police-are-yet-to-ascertain-the-cause-of-the-fire/ |work= zambianobserver.com |location= Lusaka Zambia |date=4 July 2017|accessdate=2017-07-04}}</ref> In early hours of Tuesday morning the Market was found engulfed in fire as shop owners cried helplessly while watching thier property being burn to ashes. The [[Lusaka City fire fighters]] were first on the ground trying to save the market.
 
 
While a police report reported that the fire started aroound 05:20 hours from one of the shops on the southern part of the market in the area called Dark yellow shops, an area where stationery and mobile phones are sold.<ref>{{cite news|title= police are yet to ascertain the cause of the fire|url=http://www.zambianobserver.com/police-are-yet-to-ascertain-the-cause-of-the-fire/ |work= zambianobserver.com |location= Lusaka Zambia |date=4 July 2017|accessdate=2017-07-04}}</ref> In early hours of Tuesday morning the Market was found engulfed in fire as shop owners cried helplessly while watching thier property being burn to ashes. The [[Lusaka City fire fighters]] were first on the ground trying to save the market.


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