A-25-year old taxi driver was burnt to ashes last night, when a vulcanizing shop in which he lived caught fire at Jachie Junction on the Accra-Kumasi Road. Neigbours suspect the deceased identified only as Tanko or “Taller”, may have lit a candle which caused the blaze.

Attempts by neighbors to put out the fire did not succeed. Salifu, who shared the room with the deceased escaped by what onlookers say was “divine intervention”.

Giving an account of the incident, Salifu, who spoke in Twi, a local dialect noted that on his way to sleep in the the house during the night, he heard the dogs on the compound barking furiously so he had to sleep in his car close-by.

According to him, it was some tanker drivers passing-by, who came around to help in moving his car away from the blazing fire, when they notice the house was on fire at the time when he was fast asleep in the vehicle.

Salifu further indicated that he told the tanker drivers that Tanko was sleeping in one of the burning rooms at which time he was already burnt beyond recognition.