Residents of Teshie Tsuibleoo could not help but look on with sadness and shock as a 16-year-old girl who visited her boyfriend and decided to spend the night got burnt in the kiosk in which she was sleeping. The girl’s parents, according to the police, are separated and she was said to be the only child of her father whom she was staying with but she later moved in with her grandmother in Tema. She was reported to have gone to her father’s house some weeks ago to collect money for her upkeep but the father had not seen her until her death. Information gathered from the police indicate that two persons have been arrested and have subsequently been remanded in police custody pending further investigations. The two accused persons are the deceased’s boyfriend, Eric Laryea, a 19-year-old carpentry apprentice, and his friend, Sylvanus Afortey Tetteh, also 19-year-old driver’s mate. They both reside at Teshie Tsuibleoo in the said kiosk. According to the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of the Teshie District Police Headquarters Samuel Tibil Punobyin, the deceased, Charity Akosua Addobea, on June 20, 2010, visited her boyfriend Eric and was accommodated in the kiosk which belonged to the second accused person’s sister. The deceased, according to him, stayed with the two for three days in the kiosk and on June 23, 2010, the two accused persons allegedly left for town at about 2am to buy rice for the deceased, leaving her alone in the kiosk. DSP Punobyin said when the accused persons were arrested; the two noted that they were in town when information reached them that their kiosk was on fire, so they rushed home only to find the deceased burnt to death. They added that they discovered that a new padlock was used to lock the main door to the kiosk from outside but denied locking the kiosk before they left to town. Police source also mentioned that somebody had earlier threatened to burn the kiosk in which the deceased was sleeping but the person had gone into hiding so the police was making frantic efforts to arrest the person while they carried on further investigations to ascertain the cause of the fire, adding that the Ghana Fire Service had been contacted to help with the investigations. The body of the deceased has been sent to the Police Hospital for a post mortem to be carried out. Source: Daily Guide