Ghana: two children burnt to death

Two children have been burnt to death after fire ruined their room at Agona Afamanso in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana.

“The children were asleep at the time of the incident, got trapped in their room,” reports said.

“Their 40-year-old guardian who was with them had stepped out to get something when the incident happened,” report stated.

“There was a candle in the room because there is no electricity in the house, hence it couldn’t have been an electrical fault,” according to the Assemblyman for the area, Martin Mensah.

“The children may have been saved if firefighters were deployed to the scene,” he said.

The cause of the fire is yet to be established.