{"id":198045,"date":"2016-03-11T06:58:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T06:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=198045"},"modified":"2016-03-11T06:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T06:58:57","slug":"over-50-shops-in-flames-at-kumasi-central-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/over-50-shops-in-flames-at-kumasi-central-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 50 shops in flames at Kumasi Central Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 50 shops at the Central Market in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have been razed to the ground in another fire outbreak in that market.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-198050 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG-20160311-WA0003.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160311-WA0003\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong> Hawa Iddrisu reports that\u00a0fire officers are struggling to find access routes to where the fire is causing the havoc in the market.<\/p>\n<p>She indicated that the fire started at about 5: 30 this morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-198053\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG-20160311-WA0002.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160311-WA0002\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just about two months ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2016\/01\/06\/fire-consumes-kumasi-central-market-for-the-umpteenth-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>more than 1,000 live birds<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>were consumed by fire while hundreds of shops were destroyed in that same market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fire guts Spintex Apartment\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This fire incident occurred barely a day after fire\u00a0gutted a shop and some apartments on the Spintex Road around the Kotobabi traffic light in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which started on Thursday evening around 6:30pm, destroyed several properties running into thousands of cedis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>Photos by: Hawa Iddrisu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 50 shops at the Central Market in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have been razed to the ground in another fire outbreak in that market. &nbsp; Citi News&#8217; Hawa Iddrisu reports that\u00a0fire officers are struggling to find access routes to where the fire is causing the havoc in the market. 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