Family of 7 Perish In Fire Disaster At Budumburam

A household of seven have been burnt to dying after a hearth swept by their residential property at Huge Apple, a suburb of Gomoa Buduburam within the Gomoa East District within the Central Area Saturday morning.

The deceased are Mr Robert Assan, a headteacher, his spouse, and their 5 kids together with a four-month-old child.

In line with among the residents who have been on the scene, the fireplace began round 5:30 am however couldn’t inform what precisely might have triggered the fireplace which burnt the occupants to dying.

Objects resembling private results, stationery, and meals gadgets weren’t spared as they have been burnt past recognition.

Try to rescue

A resident, Mr Isaiah Bentle in an interview with Graphic On-line stated they heard the victims screaming for assist from their residences, including that he along with different residents who rushed to the scene tried to interrupt into the condo to rescue them however they have been unsuccessful as a result of nature of the inferno.

He added that by the point officers of the Ghana Nationwide Fireplace Service (GNFS) acquired to the scene, after receiving a misery name, it was too late to avoid wasting the household.

He additional acknowledged that when the fireplace personnel and a few residents entered the condo, the lifeless our bodies of the household have been discovered within the bed room and toilet respectively.

Their our bodies have since been deposited on the morgue awaiting the result of an post-mortem.

The way it began

The officer in command of operations on the Gomoa Buduburam Station of the GNFS, ADO11 Mr Patrick Bawa, stated that preliminary investigations revealed that the fireplace began from the lounge earlier than spreading to different rooms within the condo.

He famous that the occupants had locked entrance to the constructing on the time of the incident which made it unimaginable for good Samaritans who rushed to the scene to avoid wasting them, saying “it seems the occupants after seeing the fireplace tried to return out however the thick smoke made it tough for them”.

He suggested Ghanaians to have smoke detectors of their homes in order that in conditions like hearth outbreaks, the detector would elevate the alarm for occupants to know that there’s a hearth outbreak.

Many residents and sympathizers who rushed to the scene of the incident couldn’t maintain again their tears as they wept uncontrollably as a result of tragic dying of the headteacher and his fast members of the family.

Credit score: Graphic On-line