[ 2016-09-25 ]

[L] The road from where the taxi was swept to the drain. [R] The taxi in the drain

Koforidua: Woman in a taxicab drowns during flood
A woman believed to be in her late 40s drowned
Sunday afternoon when a taxicab she was travelling
in was swept away by flood at Koforidua in the
Eastern Region.

Three others who were rescued were rushed to a
hospital in the area. The body of the yet-to-be
identified woman has also been deposited at the
Koforidua Hospital morgue.

The incident happened around 2:00pm Sunday at
Nsukaw, a suburb of Koforidua, during a downpour
that caused the area to flood. The road that
stretches from the Pentecost Church and the
Koforidua Clinic were the hardest hit.

Some drivers were said to have ignored a warning
by residents in the area not to use the road
considering the extent of flood.

According to eyewitnesses, the driver of the
taxicab with registration GC 2631-11 ignored
advice not to drive through the flood. He was said
to have stuck midway and before they could move
out, were swept into a nearby drain.

Eyewitnesses told our correspondent, Stephen
Gyampoh, that the driver was rescued unconscious,
and with some claiming he might not survive.

The victims were rescued by onlookers,
eyewitnesses told our correspondent, claiming that
the personnel from the Ghana Fire Service who were
called in were helpless as they had no rescue
gear.

The eyewitnesses said the fire personnel arrived
with just a fire tender and looked on as the
people rescued them.

The Fire personnel later pulled the taxicab from
the drain, our correspondent reported.

Source - 3news.com

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