Firefighters have been battling a blaze in a busy market area in Mandawi in PD1 of Kabul city since early Sunday morning.
Latest reports indicate fire has spread to a second building.
TOLOnews journalist Zabiullah Jahanmal reporting from the scene said the fire spread to a second building despite efforts by firefighters to extinguish the blaze.
The fire started at about 7am in a shopping center that sells mostly plastic products, Jahanmal said, adding that “so far no injuries have been reported but hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage has been sustained.”
Footage shows firefighters trying to fill their tanks with water from Kabul River.
The cause of the blaze is not yet known.
