A 10-year-old girl has lost her life in a fire disaster at Akyem Gyadem Zongo in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern region.
Even though investigations are underway to ascertain the cause of the fire outbreak, residents suspect an electrical fault.
The mother of the deceased was able to save the little boy.
Residents and neighbours who heard calls for help from the mother, moved swiftly to the scene to save the situation but 10-year-old girl could not survive
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The locals joined officials of the Ghana National Fire Service to douse the flames while they sent the burnt body of the little girl to the morgue.
In other News:
Takoradi woman faked pregnancy to please husband – Police
The Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Kwesi Ofori, says Josephine Panyin Mensah faked her pregnancy to court her husband’s admiration and acceptance Citinewsroom reports.
According to ACP Ofori, the woman’s decision to fake the pregnancy and kidnapping was purely based on issues relating to her marriage.
He, however, clarified that Josephine had admitted that she hatched the plot alone without the help of any relative.
“From her account, she said she did it alone just to satisfy her husband. It was a pure family issue that she wanted to portray that she was pregnant. She did all that for the admiration of her husband
Josephine Panyin Mensah, has been in the news since last Thursday after the media reported that she was nine months pregnant and had been kidnapped during a dawn walk.
She resurfaced a week later at Axim in the Western Region without her alleged pregnancy or baby.
She had claimed that she delivered the same day she went missing and that the kidnappers had stolen her baby.
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