Graphic photos: Family Of 7 Burnt To Death in Ghana

Reports reaching our news desk indicates that seven persons,  including a man, his four children and two visitors lost their lives when fire engulfed a flat at house number W.297 at Worakese, a surburb of Asante Mampong, Ghana.

The reports states that, they were sadly  trapped by burglary proof and neighbours could not gain entrance to rescue them.

According to the reports from the landlady, Madam Elizabeth Amoah, at about 12:30am in the early hours of Friday, she heard people shouting that one of the flats in the house was on fire.

She said her family woke up and saw that the three-bedroom flat occupied by the deceased, Mr Isaac Botwe, an Estate Officer at Obuasi, his four children and two of his guests was on fire.

They called the Fire Service from Mampong and Ejura but before they could bring the fire down, the occupants have been burnt beyond recognition. Their bodies have been deposited at Mampong District hospital mortuary for autopsy.

The cause of the fire at the time of filing this report is still yet unknown.