Three killed by lightning

Accra, Sept. 21, GNA - Three people were struck to death by lightning at Cantonments in Accra during the heavy down pour that hit the capital Thursday evening.

The three are Daniel Kudo, 29, and David Mawusi, 42, both cane weavers and an unidentified man.

ASP Frank Addei, Cantonment District Police Commander, told the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Friday that Kudo was using a mobile phone at the time of the incident occurred and that might have attracted the lightning.

Yaw Attah, an eyewitness, told GNA that around 1730 hours after close of work on Thursday, Mawusi joined Kudo under a shade in front of their workshop to collect his daily wage.

He said while the two friends were negotiating how much was to be paid another man came to ask them for money and just then the lightning struck. The eyewitness said other colleagues, who were then sheltering in the workshop behind the shade saw Kudo answering a call and during the process saw the three behaving in a funny way. He said when they got to the scene the three were unconscious, adding that it took them sometime before they got a vehicle to convey them to the Police Hospital, where the three were pronounced dead on arrival. The bodies have since been deposited at Police Hospital morgue pending autopsy.