Falling Trees Kill at Least 19 at Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana
Falling Trees Kill at Least 19 at Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana:- A rainstorm toppled trees onto people at the Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana, killing at least 19, most of them students who were visiting and swimming at the popular tourist site, officials said on Monday.
The bodies of 13 high school students, three university students and three local residents had been recovered at the waterfall in the Brong-Ahafo region, about 250 miles north of the capital, Accra, according to Siegfried Kwame Addo, a municipal official in Kintampo.
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia of Ghana led a delegation of officials who visited relatives of those who died to express the government’s condolences, the state-owned Ghana News Agency reported.
Mr. Bawumia told the bereaved families the government would provide burials. He described the accident as a “tragic shock to the nation” and asked the relatives of the dead, as well as the chiefs and people of Kintampo, to remain calm and allow the security agencies to investigate, the news agency reported.
Ghana’s tourism minister, Catherine Afeku, who was in the vice president’s delegation, expressed sympathies to the victims’ relatives and said the government would put into place security measures at the waterfall and other tourist sites in Ghana to improve the safety of visitors.
Source:- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/world/africa/kintampo-ghana-waterfall-trees-kill-students.html?mtrref=news.google.com&gwh=C4813FB62D5C447A59B628D194BB9EBB&gwt=pay
