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The death toll from the Onitsha fuel tanker fire has increased to six, as three more corpses were recovered from one of the shops razed in Wednesday’s conflagration in Anambra’s commercial capital.

This brings the total number of dead persons in the inferno to six, including a pregnant woman and her child, and a man who died yesterday.

Also destroyed by the fire were six plazas, 100 shops and residential houses worth over ₦1 billion.

The President of Ochanja Central Market, Chief Nelson Ojukwu, and a patron of the market, Mr. Ifeanyi Iloka, said the fire lasted all night till …