The intensity of the flames made the rescue efforts of neighbours impossible
An eyewitness broke down into tears while giving a traumatic account of how a nurse and her three children died in a domestic fire accident at Gyinyase, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
Linda Agyemang, a nurse at the Kumasi South Hospital and her three children were trapped in their three-bedroom house during an inferno that broke out in the early hours of Saturday, February 8, 2025.
Despite frantic efforts by neighbours, the intensity of the flames rendered their rescue attempts futile. Firefighters reportedly arrived at the scene after being alerted and managed to extinguish the blaze, but the victims were found burnt beyond recognition in the bathroom.
According to Kwabena Mensah, a neighbour, he and his brother tried without success to rescue the mother and her three children.
“At dawn, my wife, who sells kenkey, was about to prepare her kenkey around 3:30. She suddenly came to bang on the door, calling out my name to wake up and saying that the children were being burnt.
“So when I came out, the fire was burning from the kitchen. I brought a pounding pestle and was able to break down the first gate, but the cylinder immediately exploded, and I couldn’t go inside,” he stated in a video shared by Edhub on X.
“So I went behind the building with Baba, who was holding a pickaxe. We were trying to break the building amidst shouts of ‘Dada Kwabena rescue us’ by the children. We hit the building multiple times but could not break it. I broke into tears because I was helpless,” Kwabena Mensah stated amidst tears.
The Ashanti Regional Public Relations Office of the Ghana National Fire Service, DO II Peter Addai, confirmed the incident, indicating that an investigation is underway to establish the cause of the fire.
“At 4:36 AM on February 8, 2025, we received a distress call reporting a fire at Gyinyase near Tubi Hotel. We quickly dispatched our fire tenders to attend to the fire; when we got there, the fire was wild, so we called for a second attendant to help. We lost four people in that fire, but the cause of the fire is still under investigation,” he is quoted in a report by Citinewsroom.com.
The charred bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital for preservation.
Listen to Kwabena Mensah’s account in the video below:
A nurse and her three k!ds were completely burnt to death in their room in Kumasi-Gyinyase, in the Ashanti Region, at dawn today.
A witness broke down in tears as he narrated how the kids were screaming his name for help and how they failed to rescue them from the room despite… pic.twitter.com/P2X1H4IOTE
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