Tag Archives: DROWN

TWO BOYS reportedly drowned In one of the Sakumo Lagoon feeder streams at Adjei-Kojo in the Tema West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region Wednesday, information available to DGN Online indicates. They were said to have gone to the stream with one other boy to harvest leaves for their rabbit when one of them …

Two kids have drowned in a dugout at Adjei Kojo, a suburb of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region. The kids, who are 11 and 14 respectively, drowned after efforts to swim and collect rabbit feed from the drain proved futile. The boys whose names were given as Daniel Martey …

A customs officer attached to the Western Marine Command drowned Monday, March 22, while chasing smugglers along the Badagry water channel. The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Western Marine Command, on Wednesday, March 24, announced that it lost an officer in a boat mishap. The Public Relations Officer, Idaho Sulaiman, disclosed …

An 11-year-old class four pupil of the Bugubelle Basic School, Rafatu Bayi, got drowned in the Bugubelle dam in the Sissala East Municipality, on Tuesday, after she went there to wash her clothes. An eyewitness told the Ghana News Agency that Bayi went to the dam in the company of …

A final year student of Kadjebi-Asato Senior High School (SHS), Evelyn Gadagoe, and three others have drowned in the Volta Lake at Kpando. According to JoyNews sources, she was travelling with 10 other people in a canoe, on Tuesday, when they were hit by a storm on the lake. Six people on …

2 out of scores of children survived a drowning incident that happened at the Apam beach on Sunday, March 6, 2021. Godfred Apretse, 14 years and Simon Dadze, 15 years, both from Apam, were the only two, confirmed at the time of writing this story as survivors of the unfortunate …

The Gomoa West Security Council in the Central Region has in consultation with families of the 13 teenagers who drowned in the sea at Apam on Sunday has set Thursday, March 11, 2021, for the mass burial of the deceased. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting held yesterday. …

At least 39 migrants drowned off Tunisia when two boats capsized on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, as numbers risking the dangerous crossing to Europe continue to rise. Rescuers pulled 165 survivors from the floundering boats out of the sea to safety. It was not immediately clear what caused both …

At least 12 children have drowned while others are feared missing in Ghana’s Central Region despite a ban on sea swimming due to COVID-19, officials say. The victims were among dozens who had flocked to the Apam beach in the Gomoa West District to play football on March 7. The victims …

The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) has warned the public to exercise caution at beaches after two men drowned in Port Elizabeth this week. In a statement on Saturday, NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon said the incident happened on Tuesday. He said the NSRI, Nelson Mandela Bay municipal lifeguards, Coastal Water …