Fire gut Onion Market at Old Fadama

More than fifty wooden structures had been gutted by fire at “Onion Market” at Old Fadama in Accra on Monday dawn in Accra.

The fire which was said to have started at about 2:15a.m also destroyed empty onion sacks, quantities of bags of rice, bags of salt and other properties running into hundreds of Ghana cedis.

No casualty was recorded and the cause of fire unknown.

Four fire tenders from South Industrial Area and other fire stations were deployed to help douse raging fire.

The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge confirmed these to the Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday.

She said on March 30, at about 2:15a.m the Old Fadama Police Station had information that there was a fire outbreak at the main Onion Market and police proceeded to the scene.

DSP Tenge said the police found burnt wooden structures in the market, and quantities of onion sacks, bags of rice and salt consumed in the fire.

BY ANITA NYARKO-YIRENKYI