The Zongo District Police
Command has arrested two persons suspected to have ignited a fire that razed 30
shops in a storey building at Aboabo station in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional
capital.
They are Kofi Gyimah, 37, an
electric welder and Paul Akwasi Kwakye, 51, shop owner.
The electric welder whose
services was sought by the shop owner to work on his shop in the storey
building, according to the Zongo District Police Commander, Chief
Superintendent Ameyaw Afriyie who confirmed the arrest to Class News’ regional
correspondent Elisha Adarkwah, is said to have allegedly triggered the fire in
the process of welding.
They were nowhere to be found
when the fire broke out during the operation.
They were, however, arrested by
the police when they went to the police station to lodge a report of the fire.
The two are in the police
custody assisting investigations.
In all 30 shops out of 60 on the
upper floor of the structure were burnt on Sunday morning.
It took the firefighters over five hours to fight the inferno
which consumed properties like rubbers, oil, rice among other assorted items
amounting to thousands of Ghana cedis.
No casualties were recorded.
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