The driver is said to be at large.
The truck was transporting the mattresses to one of the shop owners inside the market when the mattresses which were at top length with the electricity wires sparked fire.
As the traders and shop owners in their quest to quench the fire threw the burning mattresses onto one of the shops spreading to other stores.
According to Yaw Badu, an eyewitness, the driver was warned not to pass under the wires but refused to listen to advice arguing that he passes through the electricity wires without any hitches anytime he transports the mattresses.
‘Fearing to be lynched by the angry traders and shop owners, he ran away after the electricity wire caught fire when it got into contact with the mattresses,’ he explained.
Properties worth millions of Ghana cedis were lost.
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Source: Sammy Agyei//Frontpageghana.com
