A 9-year-old girl has been electrocuted to death at Bantama after she inserted a spoon in an extension board. The girl, name withheld, was alleged to have been playing with the spoon when she mistakenly inserted it into an extension board which was been used for other purposes.
The mother of the girl, Victoria Akosua Ntim, known at Bantama PEC area as Ante Akosua, was having trouble connecting her rice cooker to kitchen plug when her husband, Mr Richmond Ntim suggested she used their television set extension board to plug the cooker.
My husband said I could use the extension board to fire the cooker when the plugs in the kitchen stopped working. My daughter was watching cartoons when I went to switch off the television. I told her I will switch back the television for her when I was done using the extension board.
She was playing with the spoon. She may have gotten bored without her favourite cartoons and that may have forced her into playing with the extension board. I heard her hitting the spoon on the floor. It was noisy so I told her to stop. She directed the sound from the floor to the extension board, Ante Akosua cried to the Bantama police. Ante Akosua, according to her narration, was at the kitchen cooking breakfast when she heard a sudden noise from the living room.
She went to check what it was, and her 9-year-old daughter was shaking in front of the extension board. The girl had been electrocuted after she forced a tablespoon into the socket of the extension board. Mr Ntim, the father of the girl, suffered electrical shocks when he tried to save his daughter.
His hands, shoulders and part of his face, were paralysed when he tried using his bare hands to snatch his daughter from the electrocuted spoon. Mr Ntim together with the 9-year-old girl was rushed to the Komfo Anokye Teaching hospital but the girl could not survive and died this morning.
The incident which happened this morning has puzzled Ante Akosua as she cries over her daughter’s death and prays for her husband’s recovery. Doctors at Komfo Anokye believe Mr Ntim will recover but couldn’t state whether his paralysed hands and shoulders will be ok or will be affected by stroke.
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