A 16-year-old boy has been
retrieved from Apam sea this morning Thursday morning.
The boy Emmanuel Ansah was found
lying along the seashore and have been deposited at St.Luke’s Hospital at Apam
waiting autopsy.
This has increased the number of
dead bodies to 14 while two are currently receiving treatment at St.Luke’
hospital.
It is believed that three
additional bodies are yet to be retrieved.
EIB Central Regional
Correspondent, Yaw Boagyan report that this development has compelled the local
authorities to reschedule the mass burial of the deceased to Tuesday 16th
March.
Background
The Apam District Police
Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Moses Osakonor giving an account of
how the incident occurred said it happened at about 5 pm.
According to a police report, while the children were
swimming, a heavy tide rose and they could not control themselves so they were
taken away by the sea.
The timely intervention
of a Good Samaritan saved the lives of two of them as they were rescued and
sent to the St. Luke Hospital to be attended to.
The search
party immediately jumped into the sea in an attempt to retrieve the bodies
throughout the night but it was unsuccessful as they did not find other bodies
either dead or alive.
However, on
Monday morning (7 am) the dead bodies of four of the teens were retrieved.
Three hours later, the search team again retrieved three bodies.
The total number of bodies retrieved as of Tuesday morning is 12 with two
females and 10 males.
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