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Another fire outbreak in Kumasi has consumed eight shops at Suame Magazine, a suburban market in the Ashanti regional capital.The fire which started at about 2am Tuesday swept through eight shops and completely burnt four vehicles as well as a corn mill.The fire is believed to have started immediately power, which had been cut from the area, was restored.This is the second market fire in a month in Kumasi after a similar occurrence in the Central Market on June 16, 2013.Market activities in the area have been halted with many traders ruing their loss.Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor reported that the people suspect the fire may have started from the corn mill. According to Erastus, eyewitness say there was power outage in the area the previous night.In a related development, fire which gutted portions of the second floor of a two storey building belonging to LETAP Pharmaceuticals earlier today, has been brought under control.Eye-witnesses say the blaze started around 3am and it took the fire service personnel close to five hours to quench the fire.
According to James Oheneba Yaw Kwarteng, Accra Regional Public Relations Officer for the Fire Service, they had to use five fire tenders and three water tankers to bring the fire under control.
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