{"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\/2018\/01\/fire-ravages-portions-of-ho-market-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire ravages portions of Ho Market [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_163494747818948371gmail-MsoNormal\">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<p class=\"m_163494747818948371gmail-MsoNormal\">The fire reportedly started at 5:00 am, and swept through three shops and three warehouses filled with cosmetic and rubber products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_163494747818948371gmail-MsoNormal\">Several secondhand clothes meant for sale were also destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388215\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388214\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_163494747818948371gmail-MsoNormal\">The affected traders who are counting their losses, say they also lost money to the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_163494747818948371gmail-MsoNormal\">It is unclear what caused the fire, but eyewitnesses told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> they suspect it emanated from a nearby refuse dump site where the refuse were being burnt.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_388216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-388216\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-388216\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-388216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The skip with refuse where the fire is believed to have spread from<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388213\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ho-market-fire-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_163494747818948371gmail-MsoNormal\">The Deputy Fire Officer, Mawusi Sarpong, who told <strong>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<p class=\"m_163494747818948371gmail-MsoNormal\">\u201cWe spoke to a lady around who told us that the fire started from the dustbin nearby. 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