Photos: Fire destroys several Adum shops in Kumasi
A devastating fire swept through several provision stores at the Adum Central Business district of Kumasi, Sunday, December 30.
The cause of the fire which started around 2am is not known immediately but it has destroyed provisions running into millions of cedis, OTEC FM’s Beauty Fremah has reported.
The shopping area close to the Kejetia enclave of the Ashanti region houses a number of merchants dealing in food items and general wares.
Fire fighters struggled to battle the blaze, the reporter added.
Some traders and shop owners got to the scene only to find their wares totally destroyed by the fire. A few could be seen gathering a number of items salvaged from the blaze.
According to some residents, personnel of the fire Service on site worked tirelessly to prevent the fire from spreading to other areas.
Some eyewitnesses spoke to OtecNews.
“We received the phone call at about 2 am this dawn that our shops were on fire, when we came every shop here and its content had been destroyed by the fire. I cannot even quantify how much money my damaged goods cost. There is a trader who lost all her five shops and another lost three and a third lost two.”
“One woman that came here had to be rushed to the hospital because she collapsed upon seeing the extent of damage to her shop,” a shop owner said.
“All these adjoining shops have been gutted by fire, none of us was able to save anything, my director has lost so many things that I cannot even quantify the cost. Many items were lost such as oil, nestle product Cadbury product and even PZ Cussons product because he is a PZ distributor,” a resident said.
The Ashanti Regional Fire Service struggled to quench the fire. According to Godwin Larho of the Subin Sub metro of NADMO, the cause of the fire outbreak is not known. He said about ten shops have been affected in addition to some warehouses and offices.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com
