2 die in fire at Korle-Bu Police barracks
Fire has destroyed parts of the Korle-Bu Police barracks in the Greater Accra Region.
Fire has destroyed parts of the Korle-Bu Police barracks in the Greater Accra Region.
The fire led to the death of a 13-year-old girl, Jennifer Nkah, and her 60-year-old grandmother Bridget Gakpetor on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
Reports stated that the fire gutted a whole block and affected four rooms with 16 occupants.
The cause of the fire is not yet known but eyewitnesses reported that the family of four was trapped in the room and the mother of the one-week-old baby, Abigail Gakpetor managed to escape leaving her baby the 13-year-old girl and her mother trapped in the room.
The 60-year-old grandmother and the 13-year-old girl burnt beyond recognition with the baby sustaining a deep cut in the thigh.
It took the bravery of some policemen and civilians to save them from being burnt into ashes by breaking the glass sliding window at the back of one of the rooms.
The woman and the girl were pronounced dead when rushed to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
