About 108 pupils displaced by rainstorm disaster.

Somanya (Eastern Region) -- About 108 pupils of the Kpanorkle Local Authority Primary School in Yilo Krobo District are having their lessons under trees following destruction of their school by a rainstorm on Saturday.

The rainstorm also rendered about 200 people homeless. The Headmaster of the school, Mr. H.K. Awusanya, in a distress message to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), called for urgent assistance to restore the school to normalcy, "so that the future of the pupils would not be adversely affected."

The school, he said, that suffered a similar fate in 1995, had its walls caved in due to the battering of the winds and destroyed furniture and textbooks. The Yilo Krobo District Chief Executive, Christian Tettey, told the GNA that temporary arrangements were being made to enable the pupils to resume normal lessons whilst money was being sought to construct a new structure. The Yilo Krobo District Co-ordinator of NADMO, Mr. Nicholas Addai, said efforts were being made to provide relief items to the displaced persons.