{"id":388203,"date":"2018-01-03T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388203"},"modified":"2018-01-03T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T12:24:33","slug":"fire-ravages-portions-of-ho-market-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388203","title":{"rendered":"Fire ravages portions of Ho Market [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Items worth thousands of Cedis were destroyed early Wednesday morning at the Ho Market in the Volta Region, after stores were razed by fire.<\/p>\n

The fire reportedly started at 5:00 am, and swept through three shops and three warehouses filled with cosmetic and rubber products.<\/p>\n

Several secondhand clothes meant for sale were also destroyed.<\/p>\n

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The affected traders who are counting their losses, say they also lost money to the fire.<\/p>\n

It is unclear what caused the fire, but eyewitnesses told Citi News<\/strong> they suspect it emanated from a nearby refuse dump site where the refuse were being burnt.<\/p>\n

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The skip with refuse where the fire is believed to have spread from<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Deputy Fire Officer, Mawusi Sarpong, who told Citi News<\/strong> her team rushed into to douse the fire, said investigators are on the ground gathering information to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spoke to a lady around who told us that the fire started from the dustbin nearby. But our fire investigators are on the ground to ascertain that and the way forward\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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By: King Nobert Akpablie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Items worth thousands of Cedis were destroyed early Wednesday morning at the Ho Market in the Volta Region, after stores were razed by fire. The fire reportedly started at 5:00 am, and swept through three shops and three warehouses filled with cosmetic and rubber products. Several secondhand clothes meant for sale were also destroyed. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":388212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[412,3,929,2654],"class_list":["post-388203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-fire","tag-ghana-news","tag-ho","tag-ho-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/388212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}