{"id":609593,"date":"2019-04-22T18:54:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday, 22 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanaguardian.com<\/p>\n2019-04-22\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/35272"},"modified":"2019-04-22T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T18:54:33","slug":"police-pick-up-33-suspects-over-kumasi-market-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/22\/police-pick-up-33-suspects-over-kumasi-market-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Police pick up 33 suspects over Kumasi market fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday, 22 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanaguardian.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-22<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/35272305.295.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Asafo \" title=\"Fire Asafo \" width=\"295\" height=\"176\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Asafo market fire<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The police have arrested a total of 33 suspects said to have started the weekend&#8217;s market fires at Asafo and the central market in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>Some eyewitnesses claimed they saw some of the suspects throwing &#8220;fire bombs&#8221; into the Asafo market, a police source has hinted Graphic Online.<\/p>\n<p>Member of Parliament for the Subin constituency had described the fire as strange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy initial reaction is one of sadness, especially with Easter celebrations going on,\u201d Eugene Antwi told Luv FM\u2019s Erastus Asare Donkor on the Super Morning Show Monday.<\/p>\n<p>What caused the blaze, which initially began on Friday, is \u201cquite strange,\u201d Antwi acknowledged, but he suspects that outdated equipment could have been a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p>His solution is to work with the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) to provide 24-hour security for the market. \u201cThat is the only way to counter such fires,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For three consecutive nights, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Asafo market and the Kumasi Central market were gutted by fire.<\/p>\n<p>That of the Asafo Market happened on Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday night following a similar incident at the Kumasi Central market on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Property worth thousands of Ghana cedis were destroyed by the fires which all happened at night.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, it was the third night that Kumasi was witnessing successive market fires on Easter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Monday, 22 April 2019 Source: ghanaguardian.com 2019-04-22 play videoAsafo market fire The police have arrested a total of 33 suspects said to have started the weekend&#8217;s market fires at Asafo and the central market in Kumasi. Some eyewitnesses claimed they saw some of the suspects throwing &#8220;fire bombs&#8221; into the Asafo market, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police pick up 33 suspects over Kumasi market fires - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/22\/police-pick-up-33-suspects-over-kumasi-market-fires\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Police pick up 33 suspects over Kumasi market fires - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Monday, 22 April 2019 Source: ghanaguardian.com 2019-04-22 play videoAsafo market fire The police have arrested a total of 33 suspects said to have started the weekend&#8217;s market fires at Asafo and the central market in Kumasi. 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