An 11-year-old boy was reportedly burnt to death while his mother
and two other siblings are in critical condition after his stepfather allegedly
set ablaze a room they were sleeping in.
According to the owner of the house, the 45-year-old suspect whose name was only given as Agyemang had been having misunderstanding for some time with his fiancée he has been living with at Meduma in the Kwabre East Municipality in Ghana.
On Tuesday, March 16, Mr.Agyemang allegedly sprinkled petrol in a room his fiancée was sleeping in with the children and set it ablaze.
The landlord, Daniel Opoku who narrated the incident to Citi News said he was able to save the fiancée and two other children but couldn’t do the same for the boy due to the intensity of the fire.
“I heard the scream and shouts around 12:00am as
she repeatedly kept saying she was dying. She said Agyemang was killing her
because he sprinkled petrol and set the room they were in ablaze.”
“So I woke and went to the room where they were,
and I saw the fire spreading. So I opened the room and brought her and the two
other children out, but I could not bring the other boy out due to the
intensity of the fire.”
Firefighters were reportedly called upon over the
fire incident, but they could not get to the house due to the nature of the
road.
The
suspect, his fiancée, and the two children are on admission at the Komfo Anokye
Teaching Hospital.
The
charred body of the eleven-year-old boy has also been deposited at the Ankaase
Methodist Hospital.
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