Dome shop owners bemoan losses

Traders at the Dome Market are yet to recover from the fire which gutted their property last Wednesday.

The fire was said to have started at about 4:30 p.m., at a location used mainly as workshop and trading post. 

Property, including dressmakers’ shops, hairdressing salons and about six wooden structures at that particular spot were razed down by the fire.

Victims speak

When the Daily Graphic visited the scene, some of the victims said they could not retrieve any of their belongings.

One of the affected persons who gave her name only as Adwoa, said she had her shop close to where the fire started.

She said the fire started from one of the shops, explaining that the shop owner left an electric iron on when he left for the  house, resulting in the fire outbreak.

“The fire became more ferocious when an LPG gas exploded at the food joint at the shop,” she said. 

She said when she heard about the fire outbreak, she ran to the scene, only to see that all the shops at that particular spot had been burnt down.

Adwoa said when she got to her shop, all the items in it had been destroyed, adding that it would be very difficult for her to go back to business.

“We have to pay the loan we took from the banks and that is the major problem for us,” she lamented. 

She, therefore, appealed to the government to support them to restart their businesses and also pay for the loans they took.