Parts of the Makola market in Accra were destroyed by fire on Sunday August 15th at about 7:25 am.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained by the Ghana National Fire Service {GNFS}.
“This morning, we were going about our normal security patrol here when a colleague told me he was seeing smoke from the roof of the shopping mall. So I told the security personnel at the mall to check it. I personally tried calling the number of the Fire Service several times, but it was not going through”.
“So we tried putting the fire off ourselves. 30 minutes later, the fire officers came in to control the fire. Accessing the exact spot of the fire has been difficult, but everything in there has been burnt. The flames have been controlled now, but there is a lot of smoke in the area”, an eye witness told journalists.
