Kumasi, Oct.10, GNA - A shop at Old Tafo, suburb of Kumasi was gutted by fire last Monday destroying properties worth about 7,000 Ghana cedis.

The items burnt included a container, clothes, deep-freezer, sewing machines, assorted mobile phones and other materials. Miss Zulahetu Tanko 20, a seamstress and owner of the shop, briefing Ghana News Agency said her brother Mr Abdul Samed, a barber who works near her shop informed her on phone that there was a fire outbreak in her shop.

She said she rushed to the scene and was assisted by some people to put-off the fire but could not ascertain the cause of the fire.