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Watu takribani 18 wakiwamo wanafunzi wamefariki baada ya kuangukiwa na mti mkubwa katika maporomoko maarufu ya Kitampo nchini Ghana.
Wanafunzi hao walikuwa wakiogelea pale kimbunga kilipotokea na kuangusha mti huo. 22 wengine wamejeruhiwa na wapo hospitali.
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At least 18 people, mainly high school students, have died after a large tree fell on them at a popular waterfall spot in Kintampo, Ghana, police say.
The students were swimming during a storm when the freak accident happened, local police chief Owusu Boampong told the BBC.
Twenty-two others were injured and are being treated at local hospitals.
Rescue teams used chainsaws to cut through the fallen tree and free those trapped underneath, local media report.
President Nana Akufo-Addo has tweeted his condolences to the families of the victims.
Police and fire service personnel were involved in the rescue operation at the scene in Ghana's central Brong-Ahafo region, 400km (250 miles) north of the capital Accra.
An eyewitness told Ghana's Starr News that most of those involved were students of the Wenchi Senior High School, but that there were also tourists.
Source: BBC
Wanafunzi hao walikuwa wakiogelea pale kimbunga kilipotokea na kuangusha mti huo. 22 wengine wamejeruhiwa na wapo hospitali.
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At least 18 people, mainly high school students, have died after a large tree fell on them at a popular waterfall spot in Kintampo, Ghana, police say.
The students were swimming during a storm when the freak accident happened, local police chief Owusu Boampong told the BBC.
Twenty-two others were injured and are being treated at local hospitals.
Rescue teams used chainsaws to cut through the fallen tree and free those trapped underneath, local media report.
President Nana Akufo-Addo has tweeted his condolences to the families of the victims.
Police and fire service personnel were involved in the rescue operation at the scene in Ghana's central Brong-Ahafo region, 400km (250 miles) north of the capital Accra.
An eyewitness told Ghana's Starr News that most of those involved were students of the Wenchi Senior High School, but that there were also tourists.
Source: BBC
