No casualties have been reported and the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
A fire outbreak on Wednesday morning razed popular Lagos plank market Oko-Baba Sawmill.
Local authorities believed that the fire might have been started by a lighted cigarette stick dumped in the area.
Mr Saminu Abdullahi, spokesman of the service, gave the statistics in a statement on Wednesday in Kano.
A source said the blaze was caused by an electric short circuit in the children’s ward.
A three-storey building, other adjoining blocks with their wares were not spared by the inferno.
NIS assured the public that investigation is ongoing to ascertain the cause of the fire outbreak.
The tanker driver and his assistant escaped unhurt.
The cause of the afternoon fire is yet to be ascertained.
The outbreak comes barely a day after a similar explosion Iju-Ishaga was blamed on a gas pipe rupture.
