According to a source, this is the third time that the slum in question, ‘Sampson Yard’, about three hundred meters from Junction 18 of the motorway, has been reduced to ashes in a fire outbreak.
A video shot from the scene and shared by @SIKAOFFICIAL1 shows massive flames erupting from the inferno as neighbors look on from a distance as there seems no hope of bringing the situation under control.
It is still unclear if there were any casualties but footage from the scene shows that the owners of the buildings must have lost their belongings and residences in the fire.
In a related incident, a house caught fire in Abukwa, Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality, Ashanti Region, burning a young woman and her little daughters.
A 28-year-old mother, Abigail Manu, and her two daughters, Nora Yeboah and Phillipa Yeboah, aged 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 managed to escape, but three others were trapped inside and escaped with their lives.
The fire was completely extinguished, but officials from the Ghana National Fire Service managed to prevent it from spreading to neighboring houses.