A 5-year-old girl has been crushed to death by a collapsed building at Ada Magazine, in the Eastern Region with her sibling seriously injured during a rainstorm.

The back of the concrete block chamber and hall room in a compound house suddenly collapsed on the two siblings; a five-year-old girl and a 7-year -old boy who were in the bedroom while their mother was cooking in the kitchen.

The mother of the children, Diana Labotey, revealed that the concrete wall crushed the head of his daughter, Kukua Esther, killing her instantly but the boy was trapped under the rubble.

He was later rescued but suffered crucial injuries.

The victims were both rushed to the Eastern Regional Hospital where Kukua Esther, the Kindergarten pupil was confirmed dead but the boy was admitted for treatment. Medical reports have confirmed that the boy is responding to treatment.

“The children were standing behind me in the kitchen but I noticed they were feeling cold and shivering so I asked them to go into the room. After 10 minutes, I heard a loud sound so I rushed into the room and noticed the back of the building had collapsed on the children. The head of the girl was gravely damaged. When we rushed them to the hospital, she was pronounced dead but the boy is still at the hospital”. The bereaved mother narrated.

The body of the deceased girl has been deposited at the morgue pending further investigation by police.

An eye witness and also a co-tenant in the same house, Amina Monica narrating the incident said the building collapsed around 3pm during a heavy rainstorm few minutes after she came out of her bathroom.