Tag Archives: BURNS

An effort by an apprentice to weld the skid plate of a 4×4 pickup has caused the car to be burnt beyond recognition at Awutu Bereku in the Central Region. According to a report by Onua TV’s Nana Yaw Asare, the apprentice, while executing his job, touched the car’s fuel …

Two persons on board a 4X4 moving vehicle have escaped death after it caught fire on the Nkawkaw-Abirem road in the Eastern Region. The victims were believed to be returning to Accra from a funeral at Akoase when the ghastly accident occurred on Monday. The timely intervention of the Koforidua …

Nigerian police say a man who had a row with a Muslim cleric died in the capital, Abuja, after being set ablaze by a mob supporting the cleric. The 30-year-old man, Ahmad Usman, was in a local vigilante group and police say about 200 people were mobilised against him. There …

An accident has occurred on the Ho road in the Volta Region on Saturday, April 2, 2022. In a video posted by Starrfm and sighted by GhanaWeb, a Ho bound Kumasi Metro Mass Transit burnt into ashes a few meters away from Tsito in the Ho West District of the …

A Gauteng man who set his former lover’s home alight and killed her five-year-old sibling in the process, has been sentenced to life in prison. Tebogo Daniel Maphopho was sentenced in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday after he was convicted for arson, murder, and attempted murder. The …

Lovelyn David, a level 400 student of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State has allegedly scalded her roommate, Angel Ogbowu with hot water over an argument. The act caused severe damage to Angel’s skin. According to sources, the incident occurred on Monday night, January 31, 2022. “They had …

Zakari Yussif, a septuagenarian and a farm hand has been burnt by wild bushfire beyond recognition at Dodo-Pepesu in the Kadjebi District of the Oti Region. The deceased, a resident of Dapaa Kukurantumi, who was believed to be working on a farm close to the inferno, tried quenching it, but …

Four Kenyan schoolboys are in police custody over the burning of a dormitory after reportedly being denied permission to watch the match between Liverpool and Manchester United, the Daily Nation site reports. It quotes a local police boss as saying the students were among 14 others questioned over the incident. …

Some angry youth in Widnaba and adjoining communities in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region have torched several houses belonging to Fulani settlers. They accused the Fulanis of the several robberies and snatching of motorbikes in the area.     Ali Sulemana, a resident told this reporter …

• Alhassan Maijida is said to have put the hand of his daughter into fire • The 8-year-old girl lost three fingers of her right hand. • She’s currently receiving treatment at the Walewale Government Hospital For allegedly stealing ¢10, one Alhassan Maijida put the hand of his 8-year-old’s daughter …