A nine-year-old girl has been identified as the culprit of the arson that reduced Ebeano supermarket in Abuja, to ashes and black powder.

The girl, dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans, was captured in a Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage, setting fire to some goods arranged under a cooking gas cylinders on a shelve.

After perpetrating the crime which happened at around 7:00 pm, she walked briskly away from the scene of the incident.

The blob of fire she left behind exploded leading to an inferno that engulfed the supermarket, razing down the multi-million naira shopping mall all night and into the early hours of the next day.