Kuffour-Camp (Ash), March 26, GNA - One child lost his life whilst about 100 people were rendered homeless when a severe rainstorm hit Kuffour-Camp in the Atwima-Mponua District of Ashanti on Tuesday. The deceased, Akwasi Asemu Tuda, aged five, died when one of the walls of the rooms in which he had sought refuge, together with his parents and three siblings collapsed and trapped him in the process. His body had since been deposited at the Bibiani Government Hospital whilst five of his family members who sustained various degrees of injury were treated at the Nyinahin Government Hospital.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Alhaji Combat, Assembly Member for Kuffour-Camp, said the rainstorm started at about 6:30pm on that fateful day and that due to its severity, many of the residents sought refuge in their rooms.
The storm, he said, ripped-off the roofs of many houses whilst it also collapsed the walls of about 25 houses rendering their occupants homeless.
Alhaji Combat appealed to the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), to come to the aid of the affected residents to help alleviate their plight.
