Tears flowed as wives, children, relatives, friends and sympathizers of seven people who died after sustaining various degrees of burns when a fire gutted a pre-mix fuel distribution centre at Brawire, a suburb of Axim in the Western Region, on June 22, 2012 were buried yesterday.
Those buried were Benjamin Cudjoe, 40; Anthony Amissah, 47; Dominic Dawda, 42; Joshua Nyamekye, 40; J.S. Addaquaye, 46; Samuel Kwesie, 21 and 55-year-old Justice Ackah, who were all initially airlifted to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for treatment after the accident.
Four other victims who were burnt beyond recognition were buried a day after the accident, while a 15-year-old boy whose name was given as Egya Kofi Ackon was reported dead at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital yesterday morning, thus bringing the death toll to 12.
Clad in funeral clothes, some government officials, led by Paul Evans Aidoo, Western Regional Minister and his deputy, Emelia Arthur, as well as Nii Amasa Namoale, Deputy Minister of Agriculture in charge of fisheries, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, Deputy Minister of Energy and MP for Ellembele, Catherine Afeku, MP for Evalue-Gwira including some executives of political parties thronged the funeral grounds to
express their sympathy to the bereaved families.
According to the regional minister, there should be no division among Ghanaians since disasters had no political colours and thanked the people of Axim, especially the medical staff of Axim, the Ghana Fire Service and the Ghana Private Road Transport Union, for the timely assistance they offered the victims that day.
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