Two children have been burnt to death in a fire outbreak that was caused by a fuel tanker while it was discharging the highly inflammable substance.

The incident, which happened Sunday evening at a town called Agric Kokode in the Ashanti Region capital Kumasi, also destroyed some houses and other properties.

Erastus Asare-Donkor of Kumasi-based Luv FM says the fire sparked when fuel started to leak from the tanker while the discharging was ongoing at a filling station sited close to the home of the children.

He reports that the leaking fuel caught fire immediately, burning the tanker, the filling station and anything on its way -- including the makeshift house in which the helpless children were sleeping.

The charred body of the two children - Michael Owusu Yeboah, 6 and Raymond Kyei Yeboah, 6 - was sent to the morgue Monday.

Mother of the children, who is besides herself in tears, said she had to relocate with her family to the makeshift house that was burned down last night after she was driven away from a house built for the family by her deceased husband.

She explains that the family of her husband took the house from her after her husband's death.