Fire has gutted eight out of 15 rooms of a compound house at Balogu North, a suburb of Yendi, in Northern Region, destroying property worth hundreds of cedis.
The victims lost their television sets, beds with mattresses, cash, furniture, dresses, refrigerators and other household appliances to the fire.
Alhaji Inusah Abdulai, 46, landlord, told the Ghana News Agency, in Yendi that the fire started from a weaver’s hut, near the house, which was allegedly caused by ‘wee’ smokers.
He said some of the rooms destroyed were occupied by tenants, who travelled to Tamale during the weekend and were unavailable to salvage their property.
Alhaji Abdulai said a member of Church of Pentecost, who was returning from prayers, saw the fire and raised the alarm, which attracted Mr Inusah Sha-Aban, a teacher in the house.
The landlord said the teacher rushed to the Yendi Office of the Ghana National Fire Service to inform personnel about the fire outbreak.
Alhaji Abdulai said when the GNFS personnel arrived with a fire tender, they could not get access to the house and it took them almost one hour to go through other route before they could put off the fire.
The residents appealed to the Town and Country Planning to ensure that people put up their houses according to the layout of the Yendi township, to create access or roads to houses.
They lamented that in most of the suburbs in Yendi township, there were no lanes making it difficult for fire fighters to operate in the event of fire outbreak -GNA
