TRAGEDY hit occupants of a compound house at Warizhehi, a suburb of Tamale along the Water Works road, last week when fire gutted the 13-room house, leading to the death of an occupant in the process.
The deceased, Zakaria Mohammed, aka Merrah, 19, a popular tourist guide in the metropolis, has since been buried according to Islamic custom.
Even though the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, some of the occupants have attributed it to an electrical fault.
According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred at dawn last Wednesday when the deceased, who had returned from Accra on Tuesday, March 9, was asleep in his room.
“It was after part of the wooden ceiling that was also on fire had fallen on him that he woke up and struggled his way out,” the eyewitness, Latif Abu, alleged.
The deceased was subsequently rushed to the Tamale Teaching Hospital with multiple burns on his body but died later in the evening.
Most residents of the house, including friends of the deceased, described Abu as a very affable and easy-going person who easily made friends with foreign tourists.
Meanwhile, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in the Northern Region has presented assorted relief items to the over 30 stranded occupants of the house, while efforts are being made to resettle them.
At the moment, the occupants, majority of whom were tenants and who claim they could not retrieve their property, are putting up with friends and family members.
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