Fire causes havoc in Nkoranza District

Fire razed 26 thatched houses at Adumasa, a farming community in the Nkoranza District, on Wednesday and rendered about 180 people homeless.

About 50 bags of maize, 60 bags of millet, 3,000 tubers of yam and personal effects including bicycles, radio tape recorders, clothing and cooking utensils, all worth about 15 million cedis were destroyed.

Mr Johnson Baffoe, Divisional Fire Officer at the Nkoranza Fire Station, told the Ghana News Agency that a bushfire caused the disaster.

Mr Peter Grushie, a drinking bar owner, lost his drinking bar and 1.5 million cedis to the fire.

Another fire outbreak at Nkoranza New Town on Thursday burnt down a house and property worth more than 20 million cedis.

Mr Johnson Baffoe, Nkoranza District Divisional Fire Officer who led firemen to put off the fire, said he suspected an electrical fault caused the disaster.

Television sets, clothing, musical instruments, foam mattresses and a number of electrical gadgets were destroyed.

Miss Vida Asieduwaa, owner of the house, said one million cedis was also destroyed.

A passer-by, one Mr Donald Offei-Fosu, rescued the landlady's sick mother, Madam Afia Agyeiwaa, who was in bed. About 19 inmates of the house are now displaced.

In another disaster fire razed an eight-bedroom house belonging to one Malam Abu Doho, Chief of the Sissalas at Dwenewoho, a farming community on the Techiman-Kintampo road.

Personal effects including beds, clothing, bundles of roofing sheets and cooking utensils were destroyed.

Four hundred tubers of yam and six bags of cowpea were also destroyed by the fire.