A three-year-old Nursery 2 pupil, Angela Gamadzi, drowned in floodwaters after heavy rainfall at Bibiani in the Bibiani Anhweaso Bekwai municipality of the Western North Region.
The headteacher of the victim’s school, Owusu Rockson, explained that the sad incident happened when they had closed school.
He explained that due to the heavy rains, the pupils were restrained and information was sent to the parents to pick up their wards from the school’s premises.
However, the victim and two of her siblings proceeded to walk home after the rains had subsided and accidentally slipped into a flooded gutter.
Eyewitnesses managed to retrieve her from the flood waters after which she was rushed to the hospital.
She was declared dead on arrival at the Bibiani Government Hospital.
The body of the deceased has been deposited in the hospital’s morgue with the parent’s approval while police investigations begin.
The rains on Wednesday also caused havoc in the Greater Accra Region.
Floodwaters at Peace Town, a suburb of Ngleshie Amanfro in the Ga South Municipality, swept away a mother and her two children.
According to reports, they were escaping the flash waters that had entered their house but were swept away.
According to a witness, Nii Quashon, they were screaming for help, but there was nothing the people could do.
He said they have mounted a search for the mother and children and hope to find them alive.