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One person is seriously injured with many properties destroyed after fire gutted a two-storey apartment at Kasoa tollbooth on the Tuba road. The cause of the fire is yet to be known. The incident is said to have occurred on Friday evening. A witness, speaking in an interview with Adom …

A four-year-old boy died in a fire at a home in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, on Friday night. Two women – the child’s mother and a relative – sustained injuries, said City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Jermaine Carelse. “The City’s Fire and Rescue Service was alerted at about 19:40 …

An Ethiopian Airline cargo plane caught fire in China, an aviation news tracking portal reported on Wednesday morning. The incident involved Ethiopian Airlines 777F which was parked at the Shanghai Pudong Airport. The blaze was centralized in the fuselage area. “The aircraft is thought to be ET-ARH, a 5-year old …

A 22-year-old man, Emmanuel Nkum, resident has allegedly burnt the leg and thigh of his 23-year-old girlfriend Matilda Vadasu for failing to prepare his favorite food for him in Assin Fosu in the Central Region. In an interview with Kasapa FM News Yaw Boagyan, Matilda said, his boyfriend angrily pushed …

A retired first female priest of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rev. Mrs. Dora Ofori Owusu, 82, has lost her house to a fire disaster in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. The incident which occurred on Friday, destroyed two separate apartments rendering 5 tenants homeless. Not even the intervention of …

Police in the Ashaiman Division of the Ghana Police Service has commenced an investigation into a suspected case of arson after three children were burnt to death at Appolonia in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. It is not yet clear how last Saturday, July 4, 2020 night’s …

A 75-year-old farmer has been killed and several others wounded at Kandiga-Apimpingo in the Kassena Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region following renewed clashes related to land. A majority of residents of Kandiga-Apimpingo have fled their homes with their belongings to near-by communities in the Bolgatanga municipality. The police …

    A house fire has claimed the lives of a woman, believed to be in her 40s, and a young girl in Meadowlands, Soweto on Friday night. According to ER24 spokesperson, Ross Campbell, a 12-year-old boy survived the fire with minor injuries. “ER24 paramedics arrived on scene at 01:15 to find …

News reaching mynewsghana.net confirms that plastic manufacturing company KGM Industries at Spintex in Accra is on fire. We do not know the cause of the fire now. Watch this space for all the details.          

A police camp in Kenya’s Naivasha town, west of the capital Nairobi, was set on fire by angry residents who were protesting against alleged harassment. The residents set the house of the officer in-charge on fire before flames spread to the other houses. Fire fighters put out the fire but …