Two siblings drown at Akyem Dampong

Two siblings returning from school were washed away by a heavy downpour at Asante Akyem Dampong in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday, October 6.

The two boys drowned in a flood flowing into the main drainage in the community.

According to eyewitnesses, the two brothers slipped into the water. Despite their struggle to stay afloat, the tides washed them away.

“Somebody dived into the water to save them but the pressure was too strong,” an eyewitness told Adom FM.

He said one of the boys was spotted washed aside at the end of the drainage and the other afloat. They were later retrieved but pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

The bodies have been sent to the morgue for preservation and autopsy.

Background

Earlier in June, some access roads in the Ashanti Region were rendered unmotorable after a heavy downpour.

The rainfall also resulted in the flooding of a number of communities, submerging structures sited on waterways, the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) confirmed.

On September,28, four people were confirmed dead after parts of the Ashanti Region got flooded.

The dead included two nine-year-olds, the National Disaster Management Organisation confirmed.

At least ten lives have been lost to flooding in the Ashanti Region alone since the beginning of the year. At Kromoase, a nine-year-old boy who went playing in the rain with two others got drowned.

At Daban, another girl of the same age died. The third incident and another death were recorded at Sokoban.

The October 6 2021 heavy downpours which started a  few minutes after 5 pm lasted for more than two hours.

Areas like Bukom, Adabraka, Kaneshie, and Ofankor reported incidents of flooding.