A massive fire recently gutted the main market in northern Somalia early Saturday morning, injuring about two dozen people and destroying hundreds of businesses, oyogist reports.
Images from the devastating scence which was posted on social media showed flames and huge billowing clouds of smoke in the night sky over the city.
Somaliland is a country considered internationally to be part of Somalia.
Somaliland lies in the Horn of Africa, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden.
The town has never witnessed such a massive calamity,” Hargeisa’s mayor Abdikarim Ahmed Moge told reporters at the scene.
“This place was the economic centre of Hargeisa and even though the firefighters did their best to contain the fire, the market is destroyed, he said further.
