Fire gutted six wooden stores at Wassa Akropong in the Amenfi East District of the Western Region on Monday afternoon, destroying property worth thousands of Ghana Cedis.
An eyewitness, Francis Adu, told the Ghana News Agency that a gentleman was welding a metal container with an electrical welding machine when sparkles from the electrical welding machine caught the mattresses stuffed in the container and spread to other wooden stores in the area.
He said the fire started around 1530 hours and it took more than an hour to extinguish the inferno with the support of some residents in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Adu, a City Guard, indicated that the stores were owned by some hairdressers and seamstresses in the area.
The eyewitness said the personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service arrived at the scene after the fire had been put out.
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