RESIDENTS of Lagos Town in the Sekondi/Takoradi twin-city were witnesses to a horrifying spectacle last Sunday afternoon when a 51-year-old bitumen dealer fell into boiling bitumen.
The man, George Charles Paapa, died shortly after he had been rushed to the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital.
He was said to have gone to a yard at Tadisco Down where he usually melted the material before supplying it to customers the following day.
The police said after melting the bitumen, the deceased was in the process of pouring it into containers when he fell over into the boiling bitumen.
According to the police, at the time of the incident, the owner of the yard had gone to church and the deceased was the only person there.
But he was later rescued and rushed to the hospital where he died a few hours later.
According to the police, the deceased sustained serious injuries and vomited blood after the accident.
The body of the deceased has since been deposited at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital morgue awaiting autopsy, while the police continue with investigations into the matter.
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