Fire Guts Room in 6-Bedroom-Storey Building Behind Rawlings' House at Adjiringanor (Video)

• A fire destroyed properties in a room in a six-bedroom-storey building at Adjiringanor on Friday, September 2
• The Ghana National Fire Service confirmed a walk-in wardrobe and other personal effects in the room were affected
• Several reports, including one from Ghanaweb, say the building belongs to the Lands Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor

A fire gutted a room in a six-bedroom-storey building at Adjiringanor behind the late former president Rawlings' residence in Accra on Friday, September 2.

According to the Ghana National Fire Service, the fire destroyed a walk-in wardrobe and other personal effects in the room.

Two pumps from the Legon and Madina Fire Stations dispatched to the scene following a distress call brought the smoky fire under control in 20 minutes, per the Service.

The remaining five bedrooms and their contents were salvaged, with no casualties recorded as residents were successfully evacuated to safety.

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Multiple reports, including one from Ghanaweb, said the building belongs to the Lands Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor as a video surfaced.

The Service said fire investigators are working hard to establish the origin, cause, and circumstances that led to the fire.

Watch the video below:

Mother of 2 Cries Bitterly After Sons Die in Fire at East Legon

On another fire story, YEN.com.gh previously reported that a Ghanaian mother of two reportedly lost her children when a fire gutted their room at East Legon, near School Junction, in the Greater Accra Region.

The boys, Nana Amo, eight, and his younger brother Nana Boadi, five, met their gruesome deaths when the fire blazed their room in June.

In a video sighted by YEN.com.gh, the mother of the children could not contain herself as she wept uncontrollably as loved ones tried to comfort her.

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Ibrahim Kwarteng: Wife of CCF Executive Director Laid to Rest

Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh previously reported that the Executive Director of Crime Check Foundation (CCF), Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, has laid to rest his late wife in line with Islamic customs.

The wife of the ace Ghanaian media personality died most recently after battling sickness in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital.

Kwarteng confirmed the demise of his late wife Meena in a post on the Facebook page of CCF.

Source: YEN.com.gh