One person is reported dead with five others.missing following a boat disaster on the Black Volta in the Savannah Region.
Rainbowradioonline.com gathered that the boat was transporting the passengers from Dorkorchina to Kpandai.
It capsized as a result of alleged overloading.
Bole District Director of National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr. Kipo Sulemana, who confirmed the incident noted that “They were traders who were coming from the northern part of the Bono side across to their villages, and they are always around the riverside up to the Côte d’Ivoire boundary. These people were coming from the northern side and when they got to a point, their canoe capsized. We recorded one death, a lady. The ladies were two with three men and the one who was driving the engine boat is yet to be recovered to know whether he is alive or not.”
According to him, the boat was loaded with the victims and goods at the time the accident happened.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
