Bushfire burns farmer to death

Aframso (Ash), Feb. 20, GNA - A raging bushfire on Monday trapped a 45-year-old farmer at Aframso in the Sekyere West portion of the Afram Plains and burnt him to death.

Kwasi Okyere in his attempt to reach his wife, who was on another farm, fell off a hill he had to climb before getting to his wife and was burnt by the fire.

Briefing the Ghana News Agency at Aframso on Friday, the Asante-Mampong Divisional Police Crime Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Emmanuel Arzah said the couple went to the farms at different times.

He said, while the deceased was working on his farm, he suddenly saw fire raging towards him from the direction of the farm his wife went to work.

The Divisional Crime Officer said fearing for his wife therefore, Okyere decided to go to her rescue.

ASP Arzah said, however, that before getting to the farm where the wife was, Okyere had to climb a hill and mid-way on the hill, he lost his footing and fell to the base of the hill and was burnt to death. He said when the deceased's wife returned home, she could not find her husband so she raised the alarm about the possibility of the fire trapping him.

Following this, ASP Arzah said, the police together with the wife and neighbours went to the farm to look for him and when they got there, they found the charred body at the base of the hill. He said the body had since been buried at Kwamang, his hometown after post-mortem.