A Total Of Twelve Bodies Have Been Retrieved From The Apam Beach
After About 20 Children Reportedly Drowned On Sunday Evening.
The 12 Bodies
Were Retrieved Monday Afternoon In The Incident Which Happened In The Gomoa
West District Of The Central Region.
Graphic Online’s Gilbert Mawuli Agbey Reports
That A Total Of About 20 Children Were Feared Dead In The Incident Which
Happened On Sunday Night.
It Occurred
Around 5pm When The Children Between The Ages Of 14 And 17 Years Reportedly
Went Through An Illegal Route Through A Lagoon In Order Not To Be Noticed By
The Leadership Of The Fishermen At The Beach Before Getting To The Other Side
Of The Beach To Swim.
According To Information
Gathered, As The Children Were Swimming, A Heavy Tidal Wind Blew And Got
Them Drowned And Their Bodies Were Carried Away.
Confirming The Incident To Graphic
Online Monday Afternoon, [March 8. 2021], The Apam
District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent Of Police (DSP), Mr Moses
Osakonor Said That His Outfit Got The Information Around 6pm On Sunday And
Rushed To The Scene.
He
Noted That Two Of The Children Who Were Rescued Were Receiving Treatment At The
St Luke Catholic Hospital At Apam, And Assisting The Police In Their
Investigations.
He Added, “As We Speak Now,
Lifeless Bodies Of Seven Of The Children, Two Girls And Five Boys Have Been
Retrieved And Deposited At The Morgue Of The Same Hospital.”
He Stated That According To The
Survivors, They Could Not Recollect The Exact Number Of The Children In The
Water At The Time The Incident Occurred, Stressing “A 14-Year-Old Boy Who
Survived Told The Police That They Were More Than 20 In The Water”.
He Added That The Search Party
Is On The High Seas To Retrieve More Bodies.
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