{"id":609682,"date":"2019-04-23T04:11:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T04:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 23 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>adomonline.com<\/p>\n2019-04-23\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/5777122"},"modified":"2019-04-23T04:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T04:11:56","slug":"kumasi-33-suspects-rounded-up-for-starting-asafo-and-central-market-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/23\/kumasi-33-suspects-rounded-up-for-starting-asafo-and-central-market-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi: 33 suspects rounded up for starting Asafo and Central market fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 23 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>adomonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-23<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/57771225.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asafo Market\" title=\"Asafo Market\" width=\"295\" height=\"189\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Some part of Asafo market was in flames<\/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\u2019s market fires at Asafo and the central market in Kumasi. Some witnesses claimed they saw some of the suspects throwing \u201cfire bombs\u201d into the Asafo market, a police source has hinted Graphic Online\u2019s Kumasi correspondent, Daniel Kenu.<\/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<p>Fire Service personnel responded promptly and when Graphic Online visited the scene, they had placed three fire tenders at strategic positions and were trying to douse the fire.<\/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 Tuesday, 23 April 2019 Source: adomonline.com 2019-04-23 Some part of Asafo market was in flames The police have arrested a total of 33 suspects said to have started the weekend\u2019s market fires at Asafo and the central market in Kumasi. Some witnesses claimed they saw some of the suspects throwing \u201cfire bombs\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609682","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>Kumasi: 33 suspects rounded up for starting Asafo and Central 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\/23\/kumasi-33-suspects-rounded-up-for-starting-asafo-and-central-market-fires\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kumasi: 33 suspects rounded up for starting Asafo and Central market fires - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Tuesday, 23 April 2019 Source: adomonline.com 2019-04-23 Some part of Asafo market was in flames The police have arrested a total of 33 suspects said to have started the weekend\u2019s market fires at Asafo and the central market in Kumasi. 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