22 Involved in boat accident

A boat carrying 22 fishermen, last Sunday capsised when it collided with a ship on the high seas at Dixcove in the Ahanta West District.

Seventeen of them were rescued but the remaining five, whose names were not given, are still missing.

The Western Regional Co-ordinating Council told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Takoradi that a search party has been organised to look for them.

The council appealed to people, particularly those living along the coast, to look for floating bodies and report to the Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture or the nearest police station.