
The man alleged to burn his ‘wife’, two step-children, and his biological child after accusing their mother of cheating leaving one stepchild dead.
According to the report, a Ghanaian man who resides in Meduma in the Ashanti Region of Ghana and was given as Agyeman after picking a quarrel with his wife set the house they all lived in ablaze.
According to the Landlord who narrates the sad incident to Citi News, he stated that, the two couple for some time now have been picking quarrel whenever the suspect, Agyeman accuse his wife of cheating on him.
Agyeman on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 was said to have allegedly sprinkled petrol in the room him wife and children were sleeping in after a heated up argument and set it ablaze.
Eyewitness who is the landlord narrated the said incident to Citi News and according to him;
“Around 12 pm to 1 pm, I heard the woman scream my name saying ‘Bla Dan Agyeman is killing me and my children. He has sprinkled petrol on the bed, all over the place and set the room we are sleeping in ablaze. Bla Dan please we need your help, without your help we are dying.’
So I stop up with my wife and went to their room where I saw the fire spreading. I asked where her husband was and she replied that ‘he set the room ablaze, locked and up and left’.
Regardless of how intense the fire was, I forcefully opened the room and brought her out with two other children’s. When I asked the whereabouts of the other child, the woman said ‘Agyeman has sprinkled petrol on a blanket and covered him with it’.
I could not bring out the other boy due to the intensity of the fire. I later informed neighbors and a lot of people came around”
According to the report, though they have called on the fire service when the incident happened, they couldn’t access the road to the house.
The suspect, on the other hand, tried to burn himself after the incident and according to report, they are all admitted to the komfo anokye teaching hospital.
The 11-year-old boy has been deposited at the Ankase Methodist hospital mortuary as the suspect has however been put under police guide.
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