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Four persons\u2013 a mother and her 3 children\u2013 have perished after drowning in a dyke allegedly created in a lagoon by a salt mining company in Laklevikope in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region.<\/p>\n
The family of 5 who went fishing along the lagoon in the enclave got drowned with the man of the family being the only survivor.<\/p>\n
The incident, which happened on Saturday, September 17, 2022, has thrown the community into a state of shock and mourning.<\/p>\n
The deceased, a woman in her late 30s and her 3 children aged between 9 and 14, all perished after trying to save one of the children who fell into a dyke created by a salt mining company, Seven Seas Salt Mining Limited.<\/p>\n
The dyke, which is about 12 feet, has now become a danger zone for residents here who are fisherfolks.<\/p>\n
Assembly member for the area, Victor Ayaku said the activities of the salt mining company have put them in danger.<\/p>\n
\u201cResidents who are fisherfolk are now living in fear as they can no longer go fishing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also noted that, the community is in no way benefiting from the activities of the company.<\/p>\n
Some residents who spoke to Citi News<\/strong> appealed to the authorities to ensure safety measures are followed by the company to prevent future occurrences.<\/p>\n They also urged the mining company to put safety signposts along the lagoon, to prevent similar occurrences in the future.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Public Relations officer of the Seven Seas Mining Limited, Adams Mensah said, \u201cthe company is not to be blamed for the death of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n He however noted that, the company is putting measures in place to put up signposts warning residents of the dyke.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four persons\u2013 a mother and her 3 children\u2013 have perished after drowning in a dyke allegedly created in a lagoon by a salt mining company in Laklevikope in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region. The family of 5 who went fishing along the lagoon in the enclave got drowned with the man of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}