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An eight-year-old girl lost her life after she drowned in a cesspit on Saturday night at Bamahu in the Wa municipality of the Upper West Region. The deceased, identified as Maafaaza Abu, is said to have fallen into a cesspit which was left open after sewage extraction, according to a …

A 17-year-old student has reportedly drowned in a quarry pit near Liberia Camp in the Central Region. According to a Daily Graphic report, the Junior High School student had gone to the pit filled with stagnant water to swim with some of his classmates when the incident happened. The form …

A four-year-old boy drowned in a dam in Yizesi in the Mamprugu Moaduri District of the North East Region. The dam is believed to be part of the government’s ‘one village one dam’ initiative. The incident happened on Friday, June 10, 2022, at about 1 PM when the boy and …

The body of a 38-year-old teacher has been found in a drainage at Aburaso within New Edubiase in the Adansi South District following a severe rainstorm that hit the town on Sunday evening. The deceased, Francis Abu, an Assistant Headteacher of Adansi Atobiase D/A Basic school, got missing during the …

A one and half year old girl whose name was given as Elcy has drowned in a shallow pond containing water at Dakurpe, a galamsey community in the Bole district. Information gathered by Bole-based Nkilgi Fm indicates that the mother of little Elcy was busy working whilst Elcy was also …

A five-year-old Early Childhood Development pupil slipped and drowned in the Mukuvisi river on Friday, February 25 on her way to school in Waterfalls, Zimbabwe. She was in the company of her Grade 7 sister and maid. Harare police spokesperson, Inspector Tendai Mwanza confirmed the incident. “It is very unfortunate …

A teenager, 13, drowned while swimming with a friend at Hout Bay Beach, Cape Town, on Sunday. The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) duty crew was activated at approximately 14:35 following reports of a drowning in progress. The NSRI’s Hout Bay sea rescue crafts Albie Matthews and Tintswalo Phoenix were …

(iStock) A 10-year-old girl drowned at a beach in Gordon’s Bay on Saturday. ER24 paramedics were alerted shortly after 11:0 and found Gordon’s Bay medical officials and lifeguards at the scene. According to ER24 spokesperson Werner Vermaak, it is understood that the girl and two friends were swimming in the …

A 21-year-old boy has drowned in a pond at Truba, near Kenyasi in the Kwabre East Municipal of the Ashanti Region. Isaac Oppong, the deceased, is said to have drowned while fishing with his friends on Monday, June 21, 2021. This reporter who visited the scene on Tuesday morning said …

A one and half-year-old girl Abigail Kakraba has died following a heavy flood at Nkanfoa in the Cape Coast North Constituency of the Central Region Friday. The downpour in Cape Coast and its environs also destroyed many properties. The caretaker of the little girl whose mother died last week in …