Two siblings are struggling for their lives after fire gutted a house at Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The two were caught up in the fire outbreak that gutted four rooms in a compound house around 7:00 pm.
The victims both adults have been referred from Oda Government Hospital Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua.
According to the Birim Central Director of the National Disaster Management Organization, NADMO, David Okyere household properties in the four rooms were completely burnt.
He said three adult males and five female occupants of the affected rooms, as well as a child, have been displaced by the incident
The cause of the fire has not been established.
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