CHINA CITY Mall, a major retail shopping center located at Santase Roundabout in Kumasi, has been razed down by fire.
The fire, reportedly, started yesterday afternoon when people were shopping in the facility.
According to eyewitnesses reports, shoppers and the attendants at the mall, upon seeing the fire, took to their heels to save their lives.
The dangerous inferno, destroyed items in the shop, valued at millions of Ghana Cedis.
The exact cause of the fire was not immediately known but some people at the scene suspected electrical power fluctuation may have sparked the inferno.
Personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) who were called to the scene managed to douse the fire.
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Chief Executive, Richard Ofori-Agyeman Boadi aka ‘Zuba’ also rushed to the scene to console the owners of the facility.
The cause of the fire was being investigated by the GNFS when the story was being filed.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Kumasi