Happy Oklah\u00a0
The Nungua District Police in Accra has found the body of a nine-year-old school girl believed to have been drowned following Tuesday’s prolonged downpour.<\/p>\n
The girl, indentified as Happy Oklah \u2013 a class two pupil of Nungua SDA Primary 2 \u2013 is reported to have met her untimely death when she got drowned in a gutter in the vicinity.<\/p>\n
The deceased and her brother, Joel Torglo, 7, family sources said, were both going to buy gari and beans from about two junctions from their residence when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n
Joel narrowly escaped being drowned. According to him, upon his arrival at home, he was told that Happy and Joel had gone to buy food from the roadside barely 5 minutes before it had started raining.<\/p>\n Visibly distraught Torglo stated that the streets were flooded to the extent that the children got stranded and did not know where to pass.<\/p>\n He said Joel jumped and landed in a gutter and so advised Happy that they should go to the other side of the road.<\/p>\n Mr. Torglo intimated that the girl, upon the advice, also jumped, landed in the gutter and was swept away by the running water.<\/p>\n He disclosed that an attempt by a motorist to rescue the girl was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n Mr. Torglo further averred that in the evening when he returned from work, he continued the search for his daughter but could not find her and lodged a complaint at the Nungua Police Station.<\/p>\n He said he was called by the police that a body had been found in a big gutter near the Nungua District Police Station, which turned out to be that of his daughter.<\/p>\n The body of the child has been sent to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, awaiting autopsy.<\/p>\n Email: [email\u00a0protected]<\/em>
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Robert Torglo, 46, father of the deceased, told the DAILY GUIDE <\/em><\/strong>in an interview that at about 11: 50 am on Tuesday, he had an urgent call from the house that he was needed at home.<\/p>\n
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
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