Kumasi: Fire Destroys Shops In Adum

Fire gutted stores at Adum, the nerve centre of economic activities in Kumasi in the early hours of today,December 30, 2019 destroying items worth millions of cedis.

The fire is said to have started at 1:30 am on Sunday, 30 December 2018. It started from one of the shops and swept through the others.

Personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service responded to distress calls at dawn and managed to put the fire under control.

An eyewitness said, he heard an explosion on the overhead wires that connect the national grid to that part of the market before the fire started.

The victims began to count their losses when they visited the scene early Sunday morning.

They have pleaded with the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and other authorities to come to their aid.

The cause of the fire is unknown.