Tag Archives: DROWNING

The Police have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the drowning of a Police officer at Sefwi Amoaya in the Sefwi Bodi District of the Western North Region. According to a Police statement, the Corporal Officer drowned on September 27, 2022 during an anti-Illegal mining operation duty around the …

A 20-year-old woman, Ellian Zumeseh, is in the grips of the Bono Regional Police Command for drowning her three-month old male twins in a well. The incident happened at Mama Lawson, a Suburb of the Sunyani Municipality in the Bono Region. Cecilia Dumpaka, a businesswoman whose worker’s daughter committed the …

11-year-old Primary 5 pupil has died after drowning in a dam at Bugubelle in the Sissala East Constituency. The victim, Rafatu Bayi met her untimely death after she went to the dam to wash her clothes together with her friends on Sunday, March 21, 2021. This news was confirmed to …

Families of the thirteen teenagers who got drowned on March 7 after they went swimming in the sea at Apam in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region will be bidding their loved one’s goodbye. A mass burial ceremony is being held in the Apam Community this morning to …

A mass burial is expected to take place for the 13 children who got drowned at the Apam beach in the Central Region on March 7. So far the number of people found dead consist of 11 boys and two girls. The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Gomoa West, Bismark …

Fetish priests, priestesses, and the entire chiefs of the Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Council have performed rituals to appease the gods of Apam. The ritual comes after a group of teenagers drowned at the sea at Apam on Sunday, March 7. For the traditional rulers, the customary rites have to be …

Burial service for the 13 victims who drowned at Apam Beach last Sunday has been slated for Tuesday, March 16 at St. Luke Catholic Hospital at Apam. The service is to be followed by the mass burial of the victims. This was announced in a statement issued at Apam and …

The Ghana Police Service has said the remains of another teenager who got drowned at a beach in Apam have washed ashore in the Gomoa West suburb of Mankoadze about 76.6 km from the national capital Accra. Spokesperson of the police in the Central Region, Irene Oppong told dailymailgh.com that the body …

The government has been told to develop and enforce beach warning systems following the drowning of twenty people at the Apam Beach. Twenty teenagers are reported to have gone to an area – where swimming is not permitted – along the shores of Apam on Sunday, March 6 to swim. …

A young man believed to have drowned in the sea at Goi in the West Ada District of the Greater Accra Region has reunited with family a week after the alleged incident. 42-year-old Livingston Amornortey Sebi, on February 14, 2020 got missing when he went swimming after attending a funeral …