Mother and her two daughters killed in a house fire

A family of three has been burnt to death in a domestic fire at Abuakwa Nsonyameye in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti region, Ghana, according to reports.

A mother aged, 28, the daughter of the landlady and her two children aged nine and six years.

“The mother and her two children were trapped in the room and could not run for their lives during the fire outbreak,” according to eyewitness.

Firefighters were called to the scene but could only prevent the fire from spreading from the four-bedroom house to other rooms.

The cause of the blaze is not yet known but personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) have commenced investigations to unravel it.