Regional News of Monday, 19 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comSome shop owners at the Kumasi Central Market will now have to pick up the pieces and rebuild after their shops were gutted by fire in the late hours of Sunday, April 18, 2021. A report by Citinewsroom indicates that close to thirty shops at the market were razed by the fire that spread through the part occupied by cobblers popularly known as ‘shoe makers’. An eyewitness, Alhassan Idris told Citi News that: “I was asleep when I heard of the fire outbreak at the Kumasi Central market. “We received a distress call around 8:48 pm that there was a fire outbreak at the Central market, so we quickly dispatched our men. When they arrived, they saw that the whole place had been engulfed by the fire, affecting about 27 shops.

Source: GhanaWeb April 19, 2021 09:11 UTC