Three bodies have been found following flooding that occurred at the Ahenema Kokoben suburb of Kumasi on Monday night. Three people went missing after nearly three hours of torrential rainfall hit the community. The victims were onboard a Kia Truck but jumped off as the flood pulled the truck to …
Read More »PHOTOS: 4 confirmed dead after 3 hours of torrential rains in Kumasi
Four persons have been confirmed dead in Monday night’s flooding of parts of the Ashanti Region. According to the National Disaster Management Organisation, four bodies, including two nine-year-olds, have been retrieved, but two others, who were missing at Ahenema Kokoben, are yet to be found. At least 10 lives have …
Read More »Kumasi Floods: Heartbreak as body of 2-year-old is retrieved after heavy rains
The body of a two-year-old boy identified as Kwadwo Kontor has been retrieved after he was washed away following a heavy downpour at Sokoban in the Ashanti Region. This brings to four the number of 4 deaths recorded in the Ashanti Region after rains last week Wednesday and Thursday that …
Read More »Scores rendered homeless, buildings collapse following heavy rainfall in Kumasi
At least 11 houses have collapsed and hundreds of people rendered homeless while properties running into several millions of Ghana cedis have been destroyed after Tuesday’s rainfall at Sokoban, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, MyNewsGH.com can report. One person has been reported injured after his building collapsed on him …
Read More »Floods kill 11 children in Ashanti region
Eleven children have lost their lives to floods in the Ashanti Region within a month-and-a-half, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has said. The Regional Director of NADMO, Mr Kwabena Nsenkyire who made the disclosure on Monday, 28 October 2019 said the latest casualty was a nine-year-old boy, whose body …
Read More »Floods kill 7 children in Kumasi
A total of seven children have lost their lives through flood-related incident within the past two weeks in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Three of them lost their lives exactly two weeks ago, and the remaining four perished when they were washed away in a stream at Breman on Saturday …
Read More »Floods kill boy, 6 in Kumasi
The body of the six-year-old boy, Augustine Antwi, who was washed away by torrential floods at Kokoso, a suburb of Bantama in the Kumasi metropolis while returning home from school, was found on Thursday, 19 September 2019. The little boy slipped into an uncovered drain on Wednesday, 18 September 2019 …
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