A NORMAL swimming expedition among some young boys in a river at Adugyama, a farming community in the Ashanti Region, turned disastrous as one of the boys unfortunately got drowned.
The deceased, who has been identified by police as Dennis Atta Nyarko Jnr, reportedly dived deep into River Duyan but he couldn’t swim back to safety, sparking fears among his friends.
An alarm was instantly raised and some experienced swimmers in the community were called to the scene to help retrieve the body. They searched for almost six hours in the river before the body was found.
According to a Mankranso District Police statement, the drowning incident happened on September 20, 2025, at about 12pm.
“On 20/09/2025 at about 2015 hours, Stephen Adu of Adugyama, accompanied by Kwabena Nuamah of same town, brought to the station, the lifeless body of his son Dennis Atta Nyarko Jnr. aged 9.
“He reported that on same day at about 1200 hours, Dennis and his peers went and swam in River Duyan at Adugyama. In the process, Dennis got drowned. Divers were called and body of Dennis was retrieved at about 1800 hours,” the police statement pointed out.
Police together with the complainant, the statement disclosed, “took the body to the Mankranso Government Hospital, where it was clinically certified dead by the medics.”
According to the police report, which the paper has sighted, the body has since been deposited at Plus Lab Mortuary in Mankranso for preservation and autopsy, noting that investigation was ongoing.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah, Kumasi