El Gezira — A consignment of cotton bales ready for export was destroyed on Friday morning, when fire broke out in the Chinese cotton gin at Marinjan in El Gezira.
The authorities attributed the fire, according to Sudan News Agency, to friction between the cotton and part of the machinery, which led to a spark that caused the huge fire that lasted 7 hours.
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