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An eight-year-old boy drowned in River Adjei at Nurses Quarters near Domeabra in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.
Baba Yakubu had gone missing for a day and there were frantic efforts to find him.
Family members revealed to Adom News that, the deceased went to the river together with his 12-year-old elder brother and friends to swim on Sunday afternoon but did not return home.
The relative, Moses Akpe, said they received a distress call of a body floating in the river the next day.
The body was retrieved with the help of some residents only for them to realize it was the missing boy.
The deceased’s family spokesperson, Yakubu Mudasiru said the absence of a bridge on the river is threatening their lives and called on authorities to pay attention to it.
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