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The cause of the explosion is immediately not known.
Efforts by a combined team of personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service to save lives is underway and also to put off the fire.
A similar explosion occurred in Takoradi last week injuring more than one hundred people.
They were rushed to the Takoradi Port Hospital in the Western Region after sustaining injuries from a gas explosion on the Sekondi-Takoradi road.
The injured include fire men who were fighting the blaze.