By Albert Futukpor, GNA
Tamale, Feb 21, GNA – Five rooms serving as bedrooms and some stores near the Central Market in Tamale were razed by fire Sunday dawn.
Electrical gadgets and poles belonging to the Northern Electricity Distribution Company Limited were also damaged by the fire.
It took the intervention of personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to bring the fire under control.
Assistant Divisional Officer (Grade II) Mr Baba Hudu, Public Relations Officer of the GNFS, Northern Region, told the Ghana News Agency that there was no casualty, but property and some cash of traders have been lost.
He said investigations had begun to ascertain the cause of the fire but expressed regret that the people rather called the Accra Head Office of the Fire Service to report the incident instead of calling the Tamale emergency lines.
Mr Ibrahim Jawal, whose store was burnt, said: “I have lost everything. We need government’s support or else we are doomed. As we speak, everything in my store has been burnt. I could not retrieve even a single item.”
“I left some money that was supposed to be taken to the bank, but because yesterday was a weekend, I could not send it. That money too has been burnt.”
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