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Three
houses were destroyed, and 25 people, including 17 children, left with nothing,
except the clothes they were wearing, following a fire outbreak, said to have
been started by two kids roasting groundnuts.
The
incident took place at Atanve Number Two in the Akatsi North District.
A source
told the Ghana News Agency that at about 2:00pm on Saturday, Joseph Sadziko and
Michael Asitor, aged five and three years respectively, decided to roast
groundnut in the absence of their parents.
But as
Asitor tried to lift the bowl of groundnuts from the fire with a piece of
cloth, it caught fire and in a panic he threw it away torching the thatch roofing as the two
ran out of the kitchen without raising alarm.
The
harmattan winds carried the fire onto the main building of the house, and
spread to other buildings within the vicinity.
The
District Assembly and Member of Parliament (MP), on Sunday gave three maxi bags
of maize, three 25 kilogrammes bags of rice, wax prints, a bale of used cloths,
Ghana at 50 cloths and T-shirts to the victims.
Mr. James
Gunu, District Chief Executive (DCE), called for extra care to protect life and
property at this time, and cautioned smokers, palm wine tappers and cattle
herds, to be mindful of the way they handled fire in this harmattan season.
Source:
GNA
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