Three farmers drown in River Offin

Bedaabour (Ash), Dec. 6, GNA- Bedaabour, a farming community near Nyinahin in the Atwima Mponua District of Ashanti, was on Tuesday thrown into a state mourning when three farmers drowned in River Offin. Two of them were identified as Joshua Akona, 35, and Kwame Afriyie, 57, whilst the third deceased person, a woman, was yet to be identified. The deceased farmers whose bodies had been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, were retuning from their farms when the incident occurred.

Bedaabour (Ash), Dec. 6, GNA- Bedaabour, a farming community near Nyinahin in the Atwima Mponua District of Ashanti, was on Tuesday thrown into a state mourning when three farmers drowned in River Offin. Two of them were identified as Joshua Akona, 35, and Kwame Afriyie, 57, whilst the third deceased person, a woman, was yet to be identified. The deceased farmers whose bodies had been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, were retuning from their farms when the incident occurred. Mr Amidu Yakubu, assembly member for Bedaabour, said the canoe in which the deceased persons and other two persons were crossing the river capsized in an attempt to flee from a snake which was approaching them. He said the two other persons managed to swim to safety. The GNA learnt of speculations in the community that the drowning was as a result of the wrath of the gods because the deceased persons flouted a taboo that no one should go to farm on Tuesday.