THREE DIE IN KOKODE FIRE OUTBREAK

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The Ghana Fire Service insists that three persons died from last Sunday’s fire outbreak at Agric Kokode, a suburb of Kumasi. 

Two siblings, Michael Owusu Yeboah, eight years old, and Raymond Owusu Yeboah, aged six, were burnt to death in one of the numerous wooden structures, while a 64-year old Godwin Attipoe, said to be owner of one the destroyed structures, died later at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. 

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Station Officer, D.O. Two, Agyei Fofie made this known to Ashanti Today, in Kumasi. 

According to D.O. Fofie, in whose jurisdiction the accident occurred, the fire outbreak also led to the destruction of 15 wooden structures, two metal containers and their contents as well as the destruction of a saloon car.

 So far, both the owners of the filling station and driver of the tanker which caused the accident have still not been found, whether alive or dead. 

The Fire Officer explained that at about 6.37 pm last Sunday, a fuel tanker with registration number AS 6633-13, belonging to Can Royal Oil marketing company was discharging its load at a fuel filling station at Agric Kokode in Kumasi.

 It was while the fuel was being discharged into the underground tank of the filing station that the fire outbreak occurred. D.O. Fofie could however not tell what really caused the fire and assured that investigation has started to ascertain the actual cause the of the accident.

 He asked also the station owner and driver of the fuel tanker to report themselves to the Police or the Ghana Fire Service in their own interest, to assist in the investigation.

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