Fire has engulfed parts of the Konkomba Market near the Agblobloshie market in Accra on Thursday afternoon.

The fire which started in the afternoon is said to have destroyed over 100 wooden shops and residential structures, eyewitnesses told Joy News’ Joseph Opoku Gakpo.

More structures are expected to be affected as the fire keeps spreading. “It doesn’t look like it is under control,” Joseph observed at the time.

According him, about three fire tenders are battling the raging fire. The difficulty in getting access to the fire area is hampering the work of the fire personnel. 

Curious onlookers who have thronged the place are equally making things difficult for the fire service personnel, but police personnel are present to keep the people at bay and to enable the fire officers do their job.

Deputy Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Prince Billy Anaglatey later told Joy News the fire was first confined to prevent it from spreading to other structures before finally dousing it.

It took the fire personnel about three hours to bring the fire under control largely due to how the area was developed.

Mr Anaglatey indicated that “accessibility was the biggest problem” they encountered in bringing the fire under control.

Though the fire service is yet to come out with the cause of the fire, some residents suspected that it was caused by an unattended water heater.

Some residents Joy News spoke to noted that property worth thousands of cedis were destroyed in the inferno. One of them said he had his television and other electrical appliances destroyed, and his family of five has been rendered homeless.