MAN ALLEGEDLY SETS BEDROOM ABLAZE, KILLING WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN AT DUNKWA-AKYEMPIM
Suspect Later Found Dead in Nearby Bush in Apparent Suicide; GNFS Describes Incident as "Deeply Tragic"
A horrific tragedy has struck the community of Akyempim in the Central Region, where a man is suspected of intentionally setting a fire that killed his wife and their six children in the early hours of Saturday, November 1, 2025.
According to a statement from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), the victims included five children between the ages of one and 15, their mother, and the eldest daughter.
Preliminary investigations by the GNFS point to a grim conclusion: the husband and father is believed to have deliberately started the fire in one of the bedrooms where his family was sleeping. Investigators suspect he then padlocked the door from the outside before fleeing the scene.
The tragedy deepened when the suspect was later found dead in a nearby bush. Police discovered his body hanging from a tree in an apparent suicide.
Detailing the emergency response, the Central Regional Public Relations Officer of the GNFS, DO II Abdul Wasiu Hudu, stated that the Dunkwa-On-Offin fire station received a distress call at 1:04 a.m. and immediately dispatched a team.
Firefighters arrived at the four-bedroom house at 1:20 a.m. to find one of the bedrooms fully engulfed in flames and, critically, locked from the outside. Despite their efforts to contain the blaze by 1:32 a.m., which prevented it from spreading to other rooms, they were unable to rescue the seven trapped occupants.
The charred bodies of the victims were later recovered and handed over to the police at Atekyim for further investigation. DO II Hudu described the incident as “deeply tragic,” marking one of the most devastating cases of domestic violence and loss of life in the region’s recent history.
Source:NKONKONSA.com
