Over 78 people have been confirmed dead after Goil filling station at the Nkrumah Circle in Accra that caught fire during Wednesday’s torrential rains.
The deceased took refuge at the filling station while fleeing from the rampaging flood.
Billy Anaglate, a spokesman for the Ghana fire service, said, flooding “caused the diesel and petrol to flow away from the gas station, and fire from a nearby house led to the explosion,killing all the people taking refuge there.
He also stated that emergency services had recovered dozens of bodies from the scene at a Goil filling station on the busy Kwame Nkrumah Circle north of the city centre.
: “We are still trying to salvage the site of the accident before we can come out with an accurate figure.”GRAPHIC WARNING …
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