A tragic fire incident has claimed the lives of seven (7) family members at Akyempim in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region in the early hours of Saturday, 1st November, 2025.
The Dunkwa-On-Offin Fire Station, upon receiving the distress running call at 0104 hours, responded promptly to the fire involving a four-bedroom house numbered AA/5259/7534.
The crew arrived at the scene at 0120 hours and discovered that one of the bedrooms in the affected four-bedroom house was fully engulfed in flames with a padlock.
The firefighters tactically contained the blaze at 0132 hours, successfully preventing it from spreading to the remaining three bedrooms.
Sadly, a family of seven lost their lives in the fire. The victims included five children between the ages of 1 and 15, and two adults, believed to be the mother of the children and her eldest daughter, who could not be rescued in time.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the husband of the deceased woman allegedly set the bedroom, where the seven victims were sleeping, on fire and padlocked it from the outside before fleeing to a nearby bush, where he is believed to have taken his own life.
The badly charred bodies of the deceased were handed over to the Ghana Police Service at Atekyim for further investigations. Subsequently, the Police discovered the body of the suspect, who had hanged himself, in a nearby bush.
