Brong Ahafo Regional Minister Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh has described Sunday’s accident at the Kintampo Waterfall that claimed 18 lives as “very unfortunate”, and has asked the public to pray for the dead and the injured.
“Pray that the good Lord takes these souls of this nature into his arms for them to rest for the period that we also join them,” he told Moro Awudu on Class FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Monday, March 20.
The dead, together with some 22 others who are seriously injured, were swimming at the base of the Kintampo Waterfall when a tree fell on them following an earlier rainstorm in the area. The incident is said to have happened on Sunday March 19 at about 4:30pm.
Fifteen of the deceased are from Wenchi Methodist Senior High School and three from the University of Energy and Natural Resources.
The minister noted: “The region is bereaved, Wenchi Secondary School is bereaved and the whole town is bereaved. We need prayers, each and every one of you should pray for Ghana.”
The minister said he was travelling to Kintampo to assess the extent of the accident and, together with other stakeholders, decide on the next line of action.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
