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Three people have been arrested in connection with Wednesday�s inferno at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. The three middle-aged men were picked up Thursday Morning by the Greater Accra Regional Police Command. Sources say the three suspects were seen at the precincts of the ministry a few hours before the conflagration. The Multi Storey building, which houses the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Accra, was on Wednesday, October, 21, completely gutted by fire. At the time Citi News reporters got to the scene at 19:00hrs GMT on Wednesday, a substantial part of the second and the third floors of the building had been completely destroyed by the inferno, which was gradually climbing to the fourth. There were however no fire fighters on the scene. When the Fire fighters eventually made their way to the disaster scene, it was almost too late for them to salvage the situation. It however, took them a little over two hours for them to bring the raging fire under control, leaving the skeletal remains of the ten storey building. Almost everything in all the offices, from the ground to the 10th floor, was consumed in the blazing fire. Some archival materials dating back to the early days of Ghana�s independence have also been completely destroyed. The damage in terms of money, equipment, intelligence and valuable documents is yet to be assessed but it could be staggering. It is unclear what started the fire but authorities from the Ghana National Service said investigations would soon be conducted. Earlier in the year some offices of the Information Ministry were also gutted by a fire outbreak which destroyed equipment and several other properties worth millions of cedis.