WILD FIRE CLAIMS ANOTHER PERSON IN KSI

A domestic fire outbreak at a slum at Asafo in Kumasi has been burnt to death a baby boy. 

Many other property including the dwelling places of many slum dwellers are also destroyed by the inferno. 

Virtually all the accommodation are wooden structures with some of them having electricity supply. However, according to eye witnesses, the slum was without electricity supply as the national grid had gone off at the time of the fire outbreak yesterday. 

It occurred at about 11 pm yesterday, Monday July 25. 

The fire is suspected to have started from one of the adjoining structures of cley baking ovens which were out of use at the time. 

The occupant of that structure include a 22-year old man, Mahamadu Amidu who relocated from Sawaba to that place about a month ago. 

Amidu lives there with his wife and their one and a half year old baby boy called Majid Mohammed.

 Speaking to Ashanti Today, the bereaved father claims that the baby was asleep while he went out to buy an item at about 11 pm. 

It was while he was returning to base that he realized that the entire place was      engulfed in flames. 

He said due to the intensity of the fire, there was little he could do to save his son as the mother was also not around at the time. Unfortunately, the baby was completely burnt in the inferno. 

As at about 2 pm today, the remains of baby Mohammed were still being kept in a paper      packaging material within the scene waiting for the Police to conduct their     investigations for the release of the body for burial.

 Personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service had already visited the scene of the fire to begin their investigations to unravel the probable causes of the incident. In all, many     properties including dwelling places for many settler families.

 One of the victims, Thomas Kwaku Aborah, a staff of the Zoomlion waste management company who operates a drinking bar within the slum, lost all his capital to the wild fire. 

He told our Correspondent that he started the business about a year ago with about 30 thousand Ghana Cedis he borrowed.

 He said he closed from business at about 10 pm yesterday but only found the bar completely consumed by the fire when he went there this morning/yesterday morning. 

Another victim, Elizabeth Nsor, who claims to have first settled in that area about 13 years ago said she lost fiscal cash of one thousand 500 Ghana Cedis being the sales she has so far made from her ‘Koko’ business to the fire.