18
Sep
A devastating fire has swept through hundreds of structures at CMB Abuja behind the Cocobod office in Accra. It is estimated that 350 structures were razed by Sunday dawn’s inferno. Eyewitnesses attribute the disaster to a gas explosion. “We just heard neighbours screaming ‘fire’ ‘fire’ and all of a sudden a deafening blast from the cylinder,” an eye witness told Media General‘s Emmanuel Samani on Sunday, September 17. “But luckily we all took to our heels and no one was burnt, no one died. Only properties.” A shop owner, Nana Boakye, said he received a distress call around 4:00am that his…