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Traders at the Odawna market at were left in awe after a Bible was found intact in an inferno that hit the business centre. Fire razed the market near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle on Wednesday dawn destroying properties worth millions of cedis. The incident, according to witnesses, began around 1:am. …

Fire has gutted the Sakumono School complex near Tema in the Greater Accra region. The incident, according to eyewitnesses began around 5 am Thursday morning. The cause of the fire is not immediately known. Personnel from the fire service have been able to bring the fire under control. More to …

About 400 shops, traders’ belongings, and monies have been burnt after fire engulfed Odawna market near the Kwame Nkrumah interchange. The fire, according to eyewitnesses who spoke to GhanaWeb’s news team started at about 1 am Wednesday, November 18, 2020. They also blamed the Ghana National Fire Service for being …

The Odawna market near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle has been gutted by fire at Wednesday dawn. Personnel from the fire service were able to bring the fire under control. John Ofori, an eyewitness told Citi News that “We saw the smoke from afar, so we thought it was the [GCB] …

The fire gutted many shops in Nkawkaw in the Eastern. Over a dozen shops located opposite the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly have been razed down by the inferno which occurred Monday dawn. Many properties including sewing machines, cooking utensils, mobile phones have been consumed by the fire. The relatively swift …

WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW: Residents of Khayelitsha in Cape Town took to the streets in protest on Thursday. They were reportedly protesting about housing and service delivery issues. Three Golden Arrow buses and a truck were allegedly set alight by the angry mob. Cape Town officials said that one of …

A crater spanning several metres in the middle of the road is the fallout of a traffic accident in which a truck transporting explosives caught alight on Thursday night. The driver and several motorists who were in the vicinity were lucky to escape injury, said ER24’s Russel Meiring. The explosion …

Fire has swept through a 12-bedroom house at New Edubiase in the Ashanti region, destroying the entire building. The fire, which started around 6:30 pm on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, destroyed property worth thousands of cedis while displacing its occupants. The landlord, Kwame Razak, also lost his passport, green card and …

Three buses and a truck were torched in Khayelitsha in Cape Town on Thursday, leaving some matrics unable to get to their exam venues on time as protests erupted around the N2. Police spokesperson Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana said the Public Order Police were at the scene of what appeared to …

A Durban community tried to break windows and remove burglar guards of a home on fire in Ndwedwe, but they could not save a 45-year-old man and four teenagers on Sunday afternoon. The anguished screams of the man and four teenagers, aged between 13 and 16, could be heard as …