[ 2016-01-31 ]

Close to 1000 slum dwellers displaced after latest fire outbreak in Kumasi
City authorities have vowed to clamp down on
haphazard electricity connections in slums in the
wake of yet another fire outbreak at a slum close
to the Santase roundabout in Kumasi.

One person sustained severe burns and about 1000
people including women and children have been
displaced in the latest slum blaze.

City Mayor Kojo Bonsu has been seeing to the
medical bills of a five year old boy with a
deteriorating eye problem whose medication and his
family’s livelihood have been burnt.

This is the second Major slum fire after one at
Dagomba line that destroyed many structures in
Kumasi.

Tents are being erected to serve as shelter for
women and children.

Luv Fm’s Erastus Asare Donkor reports residents
in this slum close to the Santase roundabout were
rudely awoken by a fire midnight on Saturday.

The women and children were whisked to safety.

But a 22-year-old washing bay attendant was
trapped in the wooden structure where he was
sleeping.

He sustained severe burns.

The plight of the five year-old boy caught the
attention of the City Mayor Kojo Bonsu because his
eyes were swollen, with a whitish fluid coming out
of it.

His mum, a single mother of three and the children
have been sleeping close to this filthy drain
where their home used to be.

She tells me her son’s medication and everything
has been lost to the fire.

City Mayor provided financial assistance, tents,
mattresses, mosquitoe nets and other relief
items.

Source - Myjoyonline

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