Final moments with 8-year-old who died in Dansoman market fire

A grieving mother has shared the heartbreaking final moments she spent with her 8-year-old daughter, Priscilla, before the Dansoman Market fire killed her.

The grieving mother’s name has remained out of the press. The night started with her going out to get food for her daughter.

She told the press they had been playing and watching TV together when Priscilla asked for some food. She said she gave her daughter money to buy some food items for both of them.

“I was with her in the evening, playing and watching television. She asked to eat kenkey and fish, and I said okay. I gave her money to buy the kenkey… I even told her I would eat gari, so she should buy soup for me on her way back.”

Priscilla returned home, ate her food, and later went to bed since she had school the next day. The mother explained that after her daughter fell asleep, she stepped out to buy her own food and didn’t wake her to inform her. While at the food vendor’s stand, she received a call from a friend who said her shed was on fire.

The mother immediately panicked, remembering her daughter was still inside one of the kiosks.

“She called and said there was a fire in her shed. I just said, ‘My daughter is there.’ That was it. I never saw my daughter again.”

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