The wife of the Dansoman SDA District pastor, mother-in-law and three children were Sunday burnt to death in a fire outbreak at their home, at Dansoman Akokofoto in Accra.
Graphic Online gathered that the incident happened between 5 and 6am on Sunday August 19, 2018.
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.
Pastor Kessie had reportedly gone for a camp meeting, leaving the wife and their two children together with a third child – a niece of Pastor Ato Kessie – who was in the house with the pastor’s mother-in-law, Graphic Online gathered.
All five of them were burnt to death in the house which is near the Methodist University.
The above is a video of the incident captured by an eyewitness from afar.
Pastor Ato Kessie, is also the assistant communication director of the Accra City Conference of the SDA Church and son of retired Conference President, Pastor Anthony Kessie.
The late Mrs. Kessie was a teacher at Valley View University (VVU) basic school.
