prompting the nation’s leader to call three days of national mourning over the “catastrophic” loss of life. The fire hit a filling station in Accra late on Wednesday, causing an explosion at the pumps that killed dozens of people seeking shelter from torrential rains and widespread flooding in the area that also claimed numerous victims. Policemen look at burnt vehicles at the scene where at least 90 people were killed in a petrol station fire in Ghana's capital, Accra, on June 4, 2015. The fire broke out at the filling station in the Kwame Nkrumah Circle area of the city late on Wednesday night and is thought to have spread from a nearby residence.
“As of yesterday (Thursday) we have recovered more than 150 corpses. Sixty people have been taken to the hospital,” Red Cross disaster management coordinator Francis Obeng told AFP Friday, raising the toll from Thursday’s count of at least 90 killed. As he toured the scene of the disaster, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama described the loss of life as “catastrophic and almost unprecedented” and announced three days of national mourning from Monday, with flags flying at half-mast, after rescue operations finished. - See more at vanguard news.
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