{"id":179741,"date":"2016-01-07T06:24:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=179741"},"modified":"2016-01-07T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:24:14","slug":"ksi-central-market-still-in-flames-after-8-hrs-500-shops-burnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=179741","title":{"rendered":"K&#8217;si Central Market still in flames after 8-hrs; 500 shops burnt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ravaging fire that swept through portions of the Kumasi Central Market on Wednesday night is yet to be doused as firefighters struggle with access route.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which started at about 10:00pm, is said to have destroyed over 500 shops.<\/p>\n<p>Among the items destroyed are nearly a thousand live birds which have been completely burnt.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;qKjaMd7ivxRFT7WPsLmwFBZv5ZVcaRTm&#8221;]According to eyewitnesses, the fire started from the yam market before spreading to other parts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Market-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-179754 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Market-3-840x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Market 3\" width=\"620\" height=\"756\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth fire outbreak recorded at the market in about two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Ashanti Regional Correspondent, Hawa Iddrisu, confirmed on the Citi Breakfast News at 6:00am \u00a0Thursday, that firefighters are having a difficult time in their quest to\u00a0extinguish the fire due to an apparent lack of access route to the point of the fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Market-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-179755 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Market-4-934x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Market 4\" width=\"620\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Market-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-179753 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Market-2-885x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Market 2\" width=\"620\" height=\"717\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Issues of lack of access to the market have repeatedly come up after previous fires, but authorities have done very little to fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Hawa reports of women wailing as their livelihood were reduced to ashes in the ravaging fire.<\/p>\n<p>Hawa quoted some of the women as saying that, the fire, is one of the worst to have hit the Kumasi Central Market, considering the amount of goods destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what may have started the fire. Several market fires in \u00a0Ghana, have often been started by activities such as cooking in the market, as well as electrical faults.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfanyiDadzie\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AfanyiDadzie<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ravaging fire that swept through portions of the Kumasi Central Market on Wednesday night is yet to be doused as firefighters struggle with access route. The fire, which started at about 10:00pm, is said to have destroyed over 500 shops. 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