Fire has razed down over 15 shops within the Kumasi Central Market in the Ashanti Region. This was after a fire gutted a shoe-making shop within the market.
Report indicates that the fire started in a shop at around 4 am on Monday dawn and later spread to other shops, destroying thousands of shoe-making materials among other wares. Firefighters arrived on the scene to douse the fire.
Eyewitnesses say, although officials from the Ghana National Fire Service arrived late, the intervention of the officers prevented the situation from escalating.
Dispelling the claims, authorities at the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) noted, their officers got to the scene barely three minutes after they received the distress call.
The Deputy Ashanti Regional fire commander, Divisional Officer Grade 1 Rasheed Nisawu stated that “our officers got here as soon as we had the distress call. And fortunately for us, there were no casualties,” he told Citi News.
GNFS has launched investigations into the matter to ascertain the cause of the incident.