A funeral service for the family of five including a two-months-old baby who died in a fire outbreak at Dansoman, a suburb of Accra is underway.
Family, church members and sympathisers have gathered at the Methodist University school park to commiserate with the pastor.
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The deceased including a pastor’s wife, three children and mother-in-law were burnt to ashes when fire gutted their storey building.
Pastor Ato Kessie, the Dansoman District pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church was not in the house at the time the incident happened.
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At 18:00 a.m. family and friends said goodbye to Mrs Linda Kessie 31, the wife of Pastor Ebenezer Ato Kessie of the Dansoman District of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church, Jason Kessie, a three-week-old baby, and Jaden Kessie, four, children of the pastor; Madam Grace Ampah 65, mother-in- law of the pastor and Precious Pokuah, a nine-year-old niece of the pastor.
Madam Ampah had brought along Precious on her visit to the Kessies, when Linda gave birth, to assist in taking care of the newborn baby but the one-storey house in which they resided was gutted by fire at about 5 a.m. last Sunday, killing all five.
Pastor Kessie, who was not around during the fire outbreak, was said to have gone for a camp meeting, as an Assistant Communications Director of the Accra City Conference of the SDA.
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Meanwhile, the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has commenced investigations into the fire outbreak and are yet to establish the cause of the fire.