Hundreds of
wooden structures have been consumed by a fire that gutted a slum along
the Accra-Tema motorway on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, leaving dwellers
helpless and homeless.
According to a
source, this is about the third time the slum in question called ‘Sampson yard’
which is located about three hundred meters away from the 18 Junction on the
motorway has been reduced to ashes by a fire outbreak.
A video filmed
from the scene and shared by @SIKAOFFICIAL1 shows massive flames emerging from
the inferno with bystanders watching from afar as it appears there was no hope
of putting the situation under control.
It is unclear
yet if there was any casualty but footage from the scene of the incident shows
that owners of the structures must have lost their belongings and places of
abode to the fire.
In a related
incident, a fire gutted a house at Abuakwa in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality
of the Ashanti Region, burning a young woman and her little daughters to death.
28-year-old
mother, Abigail Manu, and her two daughters, Nora Yeboah and Philipa Yeboah who
were 9 and 6 years respectively could not escape the fire that broke out on
Wednesday, February 1, 2023.
Eyewitnesses say
two other family members in the house were able to escape, but the three were
trapped inside and became casualties.
The house was
completely consumed by the fire, but officers from the Ghana National Fire
Service managed to prevent it from spreading to neighboring houses.
ANDREAS KAMASAH || PULSE.COM.GH
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