In a Tweet, Kenya Redcross stated that it had sent it's response team on the ground to help fight the fire.

The cause of the fire is yet to be eatablished.

Fire fighters from Nairobi County were dispatched to the scene to contain the raging inferno that had already destroyed properties of unknown value.

This is the second fire at the market in five months. In June, 15 people died and property worth million was destroyed in a fire that razed the Kwa Mbao section.