Sunday floods kill 26 people

Accra, June 22, GNA - The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), on Monday pegged the death toll arising from a rainstorm that hi t the country from Sunday, June 20, as 26. Twelve people died in the Central Region, 13 at Ashaiman in the Grea ter Accra Region and one in the Volta Region.

Mr Kofi Portuphy, Co-ordinator of NADMO made this known during a tou r of some of the affected areas in Tema including Kpone, Afienya and Ashai man Lebanon. He said about 200 people who were displaced in the Metropolis are be ing sheltered at the Tema Navel Base. 90 of them have since reunited with the ir families. Mr Portuphy said the 48 Engineering Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forc es have been dispatched to the Central Region to help in the search and resc ue of more victims. He commended the regiment for making available two boats to help in the search efforts.

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Ashietey Armah said the Regional Co-ordinating Council would ensure the demolishing of all structures on water ways to reduce the floods. The floods in the metropolis arose when the Kpone- Katamanso dam bur st its banks. Hundreds of people had their belonging washed away by the rains and property running into millions of cedis destroyed. 22 June 10

Caption for pictures: 512-526: The death toll of the floods that hit the country following a downpour on Sunday has risen to 26. Twelve people died in the Central Region, 13 in Ashaiman, Accra and one in the Volta Region.