A three-month-old baby has burnt to death in the latest fire outbreak that engulfed a wooden structure at the Odawna Market near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra on Sunday evening.The boy was said to have been left to sleep in the candle lit structure while his mother went out to buy diapers.Eyewitnesses said the fire started about 15 minutes after the woman had left, around 7:40pm.Traders rushed to the scene and managed to quench the fire before personnel of the fire service got to the scene.However nobody, including the baby’s father who was part of those who quenched the fire, knew he was lying inside the structure.One of the eyewitnesses told Myjoyonline.com that it was too late when they finally realized the baby was in there.
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