Eight schoolchildren in Ghana’s Bono East Region were killed after the boat taking them to school capsized on the Volta Lake, officials confirmed.
National Disaster Management Organisation told newsmen that the eight, five boys and three girls aged five to 12, were among 20 pupils who were on their way to school in Wayokope, a community across the lake.
The corpses of the deceased have been retrieved, according to Ibrahim Wudonyim, the coordinator of NADMO, with assistance from some locals and the Marine Police Unit of the Ghana Police Service. Finding the accident’s cause is the subject of investigations.
Meanwhile, at least eight people died after a boat crammed with scores of African migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, the local Red Crescent organisation said on Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses to the disaster said nearly 150 people had packed on to the boat in hopes of reaching Italy.
On Wednesday, Red Crescent workers in protective clothes were laying bodies of the drowned into bags by the portside.
