Four bodies have
been recovered in parts of the Ashanti Region after drowning in separate
incidents following Wednesday’s downpour.
Three people
drowned at Atafoa, Sepaase, and Tafo on Wednesday, June 21st night.
The brother of
one of the victims in the Atafoa incident also died when he dived into the
river to find the deceased on Thursday, June 22nd.
Officials from
the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), the National Fire
Service, and some community members worked together to recover the bodies.
The Ashanti
Regional Director of NADMO, Frank Duodu, described Wednesday’s downpour as the
heaviest in four months.
“For the past
four months, yesterday’s rain is one of the days we did not find it easy at all
as we recorded four drownings. We had one at Tafo where a six-year-old boy was
carried away when he attempted to recover his ball. In Atafoa, a
forty-seven-year-old man also got washed away with his bicycle. The third one
was in Sepaase where one man was carried away when he attempted to move through
the waters with his motorbike’.
“The elder
brother of the one that died at Atafoa also drowned after he got into the
waters in an attempt to recover the body of his dead brother’.
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