A three-storey building has collapsed in Winneba in the Central Region.
The Winneba municipal fire service commander, Kwesi Hugues, told the Daily Graphic that five persons who were in the building managed to escape unhurt.
He said the service had a distress call at about 3 :15 p.m. last Tuesday about a collapsed structure after the Winneba Roundabout on the Accra-Cape Coast Highway.
According to him, the building had been completed with tenants in it, adding that fortunately nobody got hurt, because as of the time of the collapse, most of the people had gone to work.
However, he said, five of the tenants who were around came out before the building collapsed.
Trapped
“Fortunately, nobody got trapped. They knew the building had issues so they were always watching out for warning signs of collapse. What happened is that some had left for their daily businesses while others had left for school.
“So, when we got here, those who were apparently not doing anything were the ones in the house; they are about five and all of them came out,” he said.
Hugues said the property of the tenants, however, got destroyed with nothing to salvage.
He said when they enquired whether the occupants of the facility had money in the collapsed building, they all responded in the negative.
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