Fire consumes family of three
A fire outbreak in the wee hours of Tuesday burnt a family of three to death while they were asleep.
The bodies of the deceased who were identified as David Nii Teiko Amarh, 67, Gifty Amarh, 51 and their daughter, Phibi Amarh, 10, were charred beyond recognition when their Asylum Down storey building in Accra caught fire.
The remains of the three have been deposited at the Police Hospital morgue.
According to Asempa news, Amarh was a businessman; his wife a trader and their daugther Phibi, a pupil of Services Primary School at Burma Camp in Accra.
An eyewitness Richard Amarh, who is a nephew of the late David Nii Teiko Amarh said the wild barking of a dog in the house at around midnight alerted him of something amiss.
He said the barking brought all the people in the house out of their rooms only for them to realize his uncle’s part of the compound house, a storey building had caught fire.
He said they managed to break the wall of one of the rooms on the ground floor to save two young boys who were asleep but realised that Amarh, his wife and daughter who slept upstairs had been burnt to death.
The cause of fire which is believed to have started from the ground floor is yet to be known.
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