A 22-year-old first-year student of the Takoradi Polytechnic lost his life when he was drowned at the Last Hour Beach in Takoradi in the Western Region.
The student, Prince Agyekum, a first-year Textile student, was said to have had little knowledge about swimming and was using a wooden board to float until he met a strong tide which threw him off the board.
According to his friends, the incident occurred last Saturday at about 4p.m. after they left their hostels to the beach for fun. “We played football for some time and the victim and a friend entered the sea using a wooden board to surf.”
The students, numbering about 10, trooped to the Takoradi Central Police Station, where they narrated what had happened to the District Police Commander, DSP Dela K. Dzansi.
In their statements, they claimed they were all engaged in one game or another and after a few minutes of playing soccer, Agyekum and his friend started swimming.
“We saw them just at the shore and we did not pay much attention to them until one of them started shouting for help from a distance we did not expect them to go,” the said
According to Richard, the friend of Agyekum who survived the tidal waves, they had not intended to go very far from the shore.
“We did not realise it; suddenly my feet could not touch the seabed again. Therefore, I started shouting and raising my hands for help, but Agyekum could not reach me,” he said in tears.
At the time of going to press yesterday, information reached the Daily Graphic that the body of Agyekum had been washed ashore.
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