[ 2016-05-30 ]

Overloading caused boat disaster – Police
The Yeji boat disaster on the Volta River that
killed six children (all under three years) on
Sunday May 29 was caused by overloading, DSP
Abraham Bansah, Yeji District Police Commander,
has told Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show
host Prince Minkah on Monday May 30.

He has, therefore, suggested that there be naval
officers positioned to patrol both ends of the
Volta River to ensure that vessel owners do not
overload their boats with passengers and load.

Three other passengers on the vessel are still
unaccounted for after the navy and officers from
the National Disaster Management Organisation
managed to rescue most of the 67 passengers.

The boat capsised after hitting a tree stump in
the River, a correspondent in the Brong Ahafo
region told Borley Bortey on Class Breakfast News
on Monday.

The passengers were being ferried from Nantwekope
to Yeji in the Brong Ahafo Region when the
accident occurred.

A survivor told journalists that he had to
struggle to save his wife and mother in the course
of the rescue efforts.

The rescue team is still searching for a woman
believed to be in her 80’s, as well as two young
men. They are also feared to have drowned.

There have been numerous boat accidents on the
Volta River in the past years. Three people died
about a week ago on the same River in a similar
accident.

Source - classfmonline.com

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