A nine-year-old boy has died during crab hunting at Saltpond in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region.
Sources gathered by Bryt FM News Correspondent Eric Owusu Amponsah indicates that the deceased, Paa Kwesi, together with his three friends all below thirteen years went to a marshy area to search for crabs on Tuesday April 2, 2024 in the morning.
While hunting for crab, they decided to go and swim in a river when they felt that the weather was too hot, but when the deceased jumped into the river, he never returned.
The three survivors after swimming in the river didn’t see the deceased and they suspected he might have gone home so they went back to hunt.
But on their return, they sent his slippers home, only to realize that he was not at home.
However, they didn’t inform anyone about what had happened.
The mother of the deceased went to the police station and lodged a complain, and proceeded to local radio stations and information centers to make announcement but all proved futile.
They later had information that someone had drowned and have been found at a river bank at Hinni, a surburb of Mankessim where they quickly rushed to the area only to witness the lifeless body of the young boy on Wednesday April 3, 2024 in the afternoon.
The body of the deceased have since been deposited at the Mankessim Roman Catholic Hospital Mortuary.
Police have arrested the three survivors for interrogation as investigation begins.
The Assembly Man for New Nkusukum Electoral Area, Small Hon Abubakari Amoah who also spoked to Bryt FM News advised parents to take good care of their children in order to prevent such ugly incident.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Eric Owusu Amponsah
