Effiduasi, a suburb of Koforidua, was on Thursday thrown into a state of sadness when a nine-year-old girl who accompanied her elder brother to fetch water from a well got drowned in it.

The deceased, a primary two pupil of' the Methodist Primary School at Effiduasi, was said to have gone to the well with her 12-year-old brother to fetch water from the well at 8.15 a.m.

While the brother was fetching water from another well, the deceased, who was also fetching water from an adjacent well, was said to have been drawn into it due to the weight of the water in her bucket.

The elder brother, who heard a loud noise from the well where his deceased sister was fetching water rushed to the house and reported to family members that his sister had fallen into the well.

Attempts by neighbours to rescue the deceased from the deep well with several ladders and collecting some of the water from the well proved futile until 30 minutes later when a young teenager bravely dived into the well and retrieved the deceased, who was then alive.

The deceased, who was rushed to hospital in a taxicab, however, died shortly at the hospital, where her body had been deposited.

Confirming the sad incident to the Daily Graphic, a 72-year old grandfather of the deceased, Kofi Bekoe, said her grand-daughter could have survived if the family had immediate access to ambulance, since the taxicab that conveyed her to the hospital encountered several difficulties in traffic.

“At a point our cab slammed into another vehicle ahead of it in a bid to avoid the thick traffic," the grandfather stated.


Source: Daily Graphic