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Two people were injured when a water tank they were working on caught fire at Funsi in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region. One of them who sustained severe wounds was rushed to the regional hospital at Wa while the other was responding to treatment at the Funsi Health Centre. According to an eye witness, the victims whose names are not immediately known, were welders putting finishing touches to the tank which would have served as a water reservoir, when sparks from their welding instruments ignited dry leaves and empty cement bags on the ground. Timber boards and pieces of wood used in propping up the tank, plastic pipes and a shed were all burnt by the fire. The tank would have been used to store about 2,500 gallons of water for the Funsi community under the Small Town Water project. The total cost of damage was not immediately known but it is believed to be running into several thousands of Ghana cedis.