Suame Magazine, a popular industrial and manufacturing hub in the Ashanti regional capital has been gutted by fire.

The blaze consumed eight shops destroying properties running into thousands of cedis.

Fire Officers are trying to fight the blaze. This is the second fire disaster in the regional capital.

The Kumasi central market got gutted by fire barely two weeks ago.

The fire was hours apart from a similar disaster that befell jewellery shop Letap, in the national capital Accra today.