Report By: Alima Bawa, Tamale A Mercedes Benz bus with registration number AS 7597-13 carrying passengers this afternoon caught fire at the Sakasaka Shell filling station in Tamale. No casualties have so far been recorded. According to an eye witness, a generator was started close to the underground tank where fuel is offloaded. He […]
Fire on Friday night ravaged about 210 structures at the Santasi Timber Check Point, a slum area near the Santasi roundabout within the Kumasi Metropolis rendering over 700 occupants homeless. The cause of the fire is not immediately known, but residents suspect it could be as a result of a burning candle which triggered the
Several shops at the Kumasi Central market in the Ashanti Region were gutted by fire on Wednesday night with items and wares running into several thousands of cedis completely burnt.The cause of the fire is not immediately known but an eyewitness told ghnewsnow that it started around 8:30pm with the yam sellers section of the market
The New Edubiase Government Hospital in the Ashanti region was Monday razed down by fire.The fire, according to an eyewitness account, started around 2am Monday dawn.It is not clear what caused the fire, but fire service personnel from the Asante Bekwai, New Edubiase and Adanse Fomena fire stations are reportedly still at the scene struggling
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has disclosed that a total of 2,707 cases of fire outbreaks nationwide were recorded from January – May this year, with the loss of property estimated at GHȼ10, 244,493. Dr Albert Brown Gaisie, Chief Fire Officer, who made this known in Cape Coast during the opening of a two-day
By Isaac Bediako Justice KUMASI, Ghana – A family of five was burned to death when the room in which they were sleeping was gutted by fire at dawn at Trede, near Santasi, Kumasi, yesterday. Daniel Baafi, 39, his wife, Akua Ahema, 35, and their three children, including a one and half- year-old baby were
