The owner of a grocery store that was up in flames earlier this week has spoken of her devastation as the opening date for the new business remains in limbo.
Souhila Mili and her husband had planned to open Adam Supermarket - which has an entrance on Great Western Road and Napiershall Street - in three weeks time but have been forced to hit the brakes on their opening date.
It comes as an inferno ripped through the building on Wednesday night (March 1) with emergency services at the scene for hours.
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Police and six fire appliances descended on the area after a neighbouring business reported "seeing and smelling smoke", the mum-of-two, from Springburn, said.
She told Glasgow Live: "Someone called to say the firefighters are in front of the shop. My husband ran to the shop and I ran after him, we weren’t allowed inside - the fire service told us there was a lot of smoke and it was unsafe.
"The blaze went too fast and the shop burned so quickly. There were a lot of firefighters and the police came afterwards."
Adam Supermarket is a grocery store which'll sell foods from Mediterranean countries including halal meat.
The couple invested their entire life-savings into the new business and don't know whether they will be able to open it following the fire - after huge amounts of stock were reduced to ashes.
Heartbroken Souhila has been in tears for the last three days as she struggles to come to terms with what happened.
She added: "It was really sad seeing all of our life investments go up in a blaze. We are shocked and I can't believe what has happened.
"The damage is huge and we have been held back. We worked hard all of our lives to get the money so we could open our shop.
"We are really hurt and our livelihoods have been affected. We invested everything into that shop.
"Investigations are taking place with the police and the buildings insurance need to come and do their assessment.
"There was a lot of stock and it’s all burned. We don’t know what’s going to happen or where to start and whether we can open."
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