A Wednesday night inferno at the Madina market in Accra has destroyed several shops and goods at the market.
The April 10 fire started around 9pm, ravaging properties until about half past midnight before it was brought under control.
Personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service, despite the initial challenges faced in breaking into the shops, were able to douse the fire.
Deputy Director of Operations at the Ghana National Fire Service, D.O.1. Kofi Forson, told the media “it was not easy for us and there was a lack of access to where the fire was spreading and because it happened in the night, the shops were closed and we had to break through and that made it tedious.”
Though no casualties were recorded, two traders, out of shock, fainted upon arriving at the scene. The cause of the fire is not known yet.
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