NEW TAKORADI: MOTHER, TWO CHILDREN PERISH IN FIRE OUTBREAK
A mother and her two children have perished in a fire outbreak at New Takoradi Lower , a suburb of Sekondi Takoradi in the early hours of the morning which happens to be a good friday on the christian calender.
Auntie Mansah who is in her 30s was burnt to death together with both her one year old boy and an 8 months baby boy.
The deputy director of Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly’s National Disaster Management Organisation, David Owusu Nuamah, who was at the scene when beachfmonline arrived gave an account of what happened in an exclusive interview
“We had a distress call this morning about a fire out break at New Takoradi lower, unfortunately when we got to the scene, a mother and her two children have been trapped to death in the bath house. There was petrol just in front of the bath house with a woman also cooking few meters from the bath house. We cannot confirm if it’s the fire from the woman who was cooking that spark the fire outbreak. The ages of the children are one and half and 8 months”
The corpse of the victims have been deposited at the Effiekwanta Regional Hospital mortuary.
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