Two Junior High School children drown in Wa

Wa, April 15, GNA - Two Junior High School students on Monday got drowned in a dam on Kaleo road in Wa during a swimming practice. The late Master Nabil Mahama, 15, was a student of Limayiri Junior High Model School and a candidate for this year's Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE). The late Master Abdulai Alhassan, 18 was also a form one student of Kabanye English and Arabic Junior High School.

An eyewitness account said, the deceased and two others who survived the accident used a canoe that had a hole on the bottom and as they were on their way, water started pouring into the canoe, resulting in their drowning. The two surviving students whose names had not been given cried out for help and some lookers came to rescue them.

At 9.00 am on Tuesday morning, when GNA visited the scene, divers had removed Alhassan and laid him by the edge of the dam while a search was going on for Mahama. Madam Samata Alhassan, mother of Abdulai said the deceased left the house at about 3.00 pm and not quite long, she heard the news that her son had got drowned in the dam.