Police in the Ashanti Region are investigating the tragic death of three siblings suspected to have been killed by an insecticide used to drive away bedbugs from a room they slept in.
Two of the victims died upon arrival at the hospital when the incident happened, while the other one died later, with their grandmother discharged after she was admitted at the hospital.
On December 28, 2023, 15-year-old Judith Ekua Frans, and her siblings, 11-year-old Christian Magdaline Efua Frans, and six-year-old Nana Benin, who lived at Pakoso with their mother, visited their grandmother for school holidays in Asawase.
Their uncle, Anthony Frans, while preparing a room for the children’s stay, applied an insecticide, Toptoxin Fumigation tablet, also known as ‘bomb,’ to disinfect the room against bedbugs.
The three siblings, along with their grandmother, 66-year-old Ekua Gyaabena, slept in the room that night.
The siblings, along with their grandmother, were found unconscious in the room the following morning and were rushed to the hospital.
The two siblings, Christian Magdaline Efua Frans and Nana Benin, died upon arrival at the hospital, while the grandmother and Judith Ekua Frans were admitted.
Judith Ekua Frans later died while on admission.
Assembly Member for the Asawase East Electoral area, Mathew Amissah, narrated the incident to the media and said the incident has thrown the community into grief.
Godfred Sey/ Ahotoronline.com
