{"id":460774,"date":"2018-02-02T12:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/12-year-old-pupil-drowns-in-galamsey-pit-at-bosome-freho\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:10:53","slug":"12-year-old-pupil-drowns-in-galamsey-pit-at-bosome-freho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/12-year-old-pupil-drowns-in-galamsey-pit-at-bosome-freho\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old pupil drowns in galamsey pit at Bosome Freho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/21115764.295.jpg\" alt=\"Galamsey Tontokrom R\" title=\"Galamsey Tontokrom R\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The boy had gone to swim in the pit (not pictured) when he drowned<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517573453_280_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">A twelve-year-old boy, Maxwell Acheampong , has met his untimely death after falling into an uncovered and abandoned illegal mining \u2018galamsey\u2019 pit on Wednesday January 31, 2018, at Nsuem No.2 in the Bosome Freho district of the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident to Otec News\u2019 Nana Asare Barimah, the Bosome Freho District Police Commander, ASP Dennis Boateng, said the deceased, also known as Nana Yaw, a class three pupil at Nsuem No.2 Methodist Primary School, was alleged to have gone to the abandoned galamsey pit to swim, around 3pm, after closing from school.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Command got a distress call from the Nsuem No.2 community that a dead body had been found in an abandoned \u2018galamsey\u2019 pit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my men got to the scene they saw the lifeless body of the boy floating in the middle of the water and his school uniform near the pit,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The mortal remains of the boy have since been retrieved and buried.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boy had gone to swim in the pit (not pictured) when he drowned A twelve-year-old boy, Maxwell Acheampong , has met his untimely death after falling into an uncovered and abandoned illegal mining \u2018galamsey\u2019 pit on Wednesday January 31, 2018, at Nsuem No.2 in the Bosome Freho district of the Ashanti Region. 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