About 50 pupils were evacuated after a building which houses the Christ Legacy Academy, a warehouse and a church caught fire on Thursday afternoon.
The building, located at Asafo-Abinkyi in Kumasi went up in flames at about 2:00pm on Thursday.
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[contextly_sidebar id=”7KMQOOz6v3E3C1WyX9XNIXX8ron1Yfu3″]Passers-by and other commuters had to break into windows of the building to rescue the kids.
Teachers of the school assisted the rescuers to move the kids to a safe place for their parents to take them away.
It took fire officers hours to bring the situation under control after leaked holes, and a shortage of water from the initial two fire tenders slowed the operation.
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Although the cause of the fire is not yet known, fire officials say investigations have begun into it.
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Four arrested
Meanwhile, some, four members of the Christ Cosmopolitan Incorporated Church have been arrested by Police at Asokwa in Kumasi for the assault.
The four; including the head pastor of the church, Pastor Obed Obeng were picked up by police after they allegedly damaged a camera belonging to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.
The suspects were said to have prevented a cameraman from the Ghana Television from taking footage of the incident.
One other journalist from the Multimedia Group also had the screen of his phone smashed at the scene.