Falling Trees Kill at Least 19 at Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana
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2017-03-22
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Falling Trees Kill at Least 19 at Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana
The bodies of 13 high school students, three university students
and three local residents had been recovered at the waterfall in the Brong-Ahafo region, about 250 miles north of the capital, Accra, according to Siegfried Kwame Addo, a municipal official in Kintampo.
Ghana’s tourism minister, Catherine Afeku, who was in the vice president’s delegation, expressed sympathies to the victims’ relatives
and said the government would put into place security measures at the waterfall and other tourist sites in Ghana to improve the safety of visitors.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 20, 2017
ACCRA, Ghana — A rainstorm toppled trees onto people at the Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana, killing at least 19, most of them students who were visiting
and swimming at the popular tourist site, officials said on Monday.
The bodies of 13 high school students, three university students
and three local residents had been recovered at the waterfall in the Brong-Ahafo region, about 250 miles north of the capital, Accra, according to Siegfried Kwame Addo, a municipal official in Kintampo.
Ghana’s tourism minister, Catherine Afeku, who was in the vice president’s delegation, expressed sympathies to the victims’ relatives
and said the government would put into place security measures at the waterfall and other tourist sites in Ghana to improve the safety of visitors.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 20, 2017
ACCRA, Ghana — A rainstorm toppled trees onto people at the Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana, killing at least 19, most of them students who were visiting
and swimming at the popular tourist site, officials said on Monday.
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