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The Asafo residents in Kumasi were thrown into a state of mourning after the killing of a 13-year-old boy killed by a fire on Friday morning.
The deceased, identified as Koo Emma, was reportedly trapped in a wooden structure where he slept when the fire broke out around 4am.
Koo Emma's father alerted the people who rushed to the scene, shouting that his son was stuck in the wooden structure.
The causes of the fire are not yet known, but eyewitnesses have suspected that a lighted candle could have ignited the fire by accident.
The 13-year-old boy was heard screaming for help as the fire roasted him alive but no one, not even his father, could get through the fire to save him.
The charred body of Koo Emma had since been dropped off at the morgue in a Kumasi medical center for autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Eyewitnesses added that the fire had started in the wood shop where Koo Emma was sleeping and that the fire had spread at full speed, causing destruction.
Within minutes, all metal containers and nearby lumber shops were razed to the ground, resulting in the mbadive destruction of properties.
The fire allegedly consumed about four stores that contained quantities of paints, lubricants and other materials that were retained there.
A distressed call was finally issued to the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) in the city, which sent their men to the scene to extinguish the fire.
– Daily guide
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