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A gas explosion in Kumasi, that left about 15 injured and damaged property running into tens of thousands of cedis, has heightened anxiety among residents at Anlo-Town, a suburb of Koforidua, over the location of a filling station.

     The fuel station is sited in a densely populated area and shares a wall with a family, which has been operating a kenkey business.

     They have been using firewood to prepare the kenkey and there is growing fear that any accident would be disastrous.

     The station sits on the main Koforidua-Somanya-Adukrom and Tema road and there is also this commercial fish smoking centre right behind it.

     Residents who spoke to the Ghana News Agency said that they had been living in fear for the past eight months since it began operating after appeals for it to be relocated had gone unheeded.

     Naked fire is used for both the kenkey preparation and the fish smoking.

     They renewed the appeal to the appropriate authorities to get the fuel station re-located to a place where it would not pose danger to lives and property.

    It would be recalled that residents in the area some months ago staged a demonstration against the siting of the filling station but that could not stop its construction.