Fire outbreak fuel filling station.

Nkawkaw (E/R), Aug. 11, GNA - A fire outbreak on Thursday destroyed two fuel pumps worth millions of cedis at a Shell filling station at Nkawkaw.

It took personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) about 30 minutes to put off the fire.

The filling station manager, Mr Christopher Nyarko told the GNA that while an attendant of the station was dispensing fuel to a customer, who was purchasing about 200,000 cedis worth of petrol into some containers for the mass cocoa spraying exercise, he heard an explosion in the fuel pump which later started burning. He said all efforts to use the fire extinguishers at the station to put off the fire failed until the arrival of GNFS. The Station Manager said the customer had minor burns on the face and arms.

He said there were 1,000 litters of petrol in the underground tank at the station and investigations were going on to determine the cause of the fire outbreak.