A four-year-old boy’s frightened screams helped his family escape a house fire at Mmakanke lands in Kweneng District over the President’s holidays on Monday night.
The fire is suspected to have been caused by a candle which the 38-year-old mother forgot to extinguish when the family retired to bed.
The trio, the woman and her two minor children the four-year-old boy and his nine months old sister lost all their possessions in the one room but escaped with minor injuries.
According to the police, properties including two beds, blankets, food and kitchen unit were burnt to ashes.
Confirming the incident, Molepolole police station commander, Assistant Superintendent Motshwari Mokamogo said, “The incident occurred around 9pm and it was reported the same day around 11pm. The mother was alerted by the four-year-old boy crying after he saw the house burning and immediately the mother woke up to attend to the crying boy, she was shocked to realise the house was on fire and she escaped carrying her two children.”
The police officer further disclosed that the trio sustained minor burn wounds which they were treated for and discharged from the hospital the same night.
However, ASP Mokamogo also revealed that they were investigating another fire incident that occurred the same Monday morning at Molepolole, Lekgwapheng ward in which a man had set another man’s house on fire.
Nothing was salvaged from the one roomed house which burnt down while the owner was away.
Police have managed to arrest the suspected arsonist who will soon be arraigned before court.
