{"id":461842,"date":"2018-02-06T10:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T10:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/90-year-old-woman-burnt-to-death-at-berekum\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T10:51:19","slug":"90-year-old-woman-burnt-to-death-at-berekum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/90-year-old-woman-burnt-to-death-at-berekum\/","title":{"rendered":"90-year-old woman burnt to death at Berekum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday,  6 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/48168609.295.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Apartment\" title=\"Fire Apartment\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The fire is said to have occurred after a power outage in the area<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517914279_573_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A ninety-year-old woman met her untimely death when she was burnt to death at Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is said to have occurred after a power outage in the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, there was a huge blast in the house after power was restored, moments after which fire gutted the house.<\/p>\n<p>The frail old nonagenarian who was sleeping at the time of the incident could however not rush out and was consumed by the fire, leaving behind her charred body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the blast occurred, the light bulb in the old woman\u2019s room blew out and fell on the mattress on which she was laying and caught fire immediately. The lamp holder came off and fell on the mattress. She was too weak to run out and was burnt. Surprisingly, even though the fire was intense it did not spread to other room, no other items was also burnt in the house apart from the woman and her mattress,\u201d the eye witness added.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel of the Fire Service were called in to douse the fire, following which Police conveyed the old woman\u2019s body to the morgue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 6 February 2018 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2018-02-06 The fire is said to have occurred after a power outage in the area A ninety-year-old woman met her untimely death when she was burnt to death at Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region on Monday evening. 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