Brakwa (Central Region), 13th July 99 ?

A poultry farm with the capacity for 1,000 birds, has been razed by fire and property worth over three million cedis destroyed at Brakwa in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District.

The cause of the fire is not known but the owner, Mr Mohammed Tanko said property destroyed included all the 500 birds in stock, prepared feed, bags of wheat bran and drugs.

Students of the English/Arabic Junior Secondary School, who battled to put the fire out, told the GNA that the fire was detected too late.

They said it took them about five minutes to destroy the fence around the project site before they could reach the site.

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