Boy, 17, from Ghana dies in US basin

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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

    Very sad. R .I .P

  • Kwamina 11 years ago

    ..........when in water. Readily coming to mind is Castro

  • Ato Williams 11 years ago

    My condolences to his family. A bright life cut short so early. I pray that Allah will give the family strenght to persevere.

  • ........ 11 years ago

    Very sad,may his soul rest in piece.

  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go ASAP! 11 years ago

    NO LIFE JACKET.RIP

  • DAN 11 years ago

    AND EASY TO FLIP..KAYAK IS ONLY A COVERED CANOE WITH HOLE FOR PERSON TO PADDLE

  • Sika 11 years ago

    Where is Castro?

  • bobo 11 years ago

    rotten under mud some where at the coast of Ada, lazy police rescue team

  • afa iddi 11 years ago

    May Allah console his family

  • Palmwine Tapper 11 years ago

    This shit happens all the time to GH born kids who had just immigrated to the USA ALWAYS getting drown in some water; public swimming pool, school swimming pool, some lake or river. When will these GHs. learn. A GH student ka ...
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  • AMERICA LOVER 11 years ago

    Not America only my dear brother,Europe as well.

  • RTK 11 years ago

    In a room of happiness, sorry is always peeping through the window eager to enter. That is when we must be very careful

  • Sam 11 years ago

    Too Sad But May be he is captured by another Maame Water. May his soul rest in peace...

  • I had to say it 11 years ago

    I remember when the MaameWata would retrieve Africans on slave ships during the Middle Passage, whom had jumped, been pushed or fell over-board off such westward ships. Many trying to escape enslavement in a New World. A few ...
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  • Yaw Adu-Asare 11 years ago

    If you don't swim don't go for kayak adventure in the ocean.

  • kasapreko 11 years ago

    this is very sad RIP

  • vvu 11 years ago

    may his soul rest in peace

  • CITIZEN ONE 11 years ago

    Why would such a brilliant and gifted young fella, engage in such a stupid adventure?

    What the hell is wrong with us Africans. We like to share in all the useless and unnecessary luxuries of the western world, but when it ...
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  • Be careful, kids 11 years ago

    "it was believed he had not been wearing a LIFE JACKET".

    "witnesses saw him cling to a LIFE PRESERVER for a short time, then he lost his grip on it".

    CITIZEN ONE, anyone, please tell me the difference between the TWO.
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  • Spike 11 years ago

    Life jacket goes around you (like a jacket!) Life preserver might be a ring or floating block (like children learn to swim with) 1st is safe 2nd can slip away.

  • 18 yr 11 years ago

    I hope everyone appreciate the efforts demonstrated by the rescue team to discover the body.
    Do you think Castro's body would have been retrieved if his plight happened in America.

    "SDFRD dispatched emergency personnel in ...
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  • joe canada 11 years ago

    m all these tragic accidents,we should teach our children how to value their

  • bobo 11 years ago

    Oh yea, what do you think, they would have found him long time, instead people are bitching around blaming mammy water fools.

  • Counselor 11 years ago

    Well said, bro!

  • Hajj-Nima 11 years ago

    Rest In Peace.

  • Kwame Maryland 11 years ago

    Use the LifeJacket, plain and simple. It saves life. I blame the facility for allowing him to rent the kayak without using a life Jacket. I have been kayaking for a while now and will not use a kayak without a lifejacket. Ple ...
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  • jah 11 years ago

    he was holding on to his life jacket when he lost is grip ,what a shame.may is soul R. I. P

  • Kwame Maryland 11 years ago

    According to a local channel, SD6, a tweet from the San Diego lifeguard account said it was believed he had not been wearing a life jacket.

    He was clinging to a personal floatation device.

  • Counselor 11 years ago

    Rest in Peace!

  • Abdul Razak, USA,PA 11 years ago

    Rest in peace.

  • Atik Italy 11 years ago

    RAZAK MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE. AS YOUR BROTHER I CANOT STOP CRYING .

  • Sufyan Abdul Mu'min 11 years ago

    May he rest in the bossom of Allah

  • FUCKIN LAWYER 11 years ago

    HE SHOULD GO AND ACCUSE OBAMA FOR KEEPING QUIET OVER THIS ACCIDENT WHEN THE VICTIM IN QUESTION IS A STAR NAD PUBLIC FIGURE.OR HE WILL ACCUSE MAHAMA AGAIN FOR NOT TALKING. HAHAHAHAHAHA FUCKIN ACTIVIST.ANY CASTRO R.I.P. AND AL ...
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  • Kojo! 11 years ago

    If you can't swim and you're in the water without a life jacket, then whose fault???

    Perhaps the filth in Ghana has numbed some parts of ghanaian's brains. Rational reasoning has been tossed to the dogs in Ghana. What a bl ...
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  • AKWELE 11 years ago

    Rest in peace.

  • Jacob Opoku 11 years ago

    Oh my God,what a sad event may God and Allah find a place for him.Razak may your soul rest in perfect peace.

  • Jacob Opoku 11 years ago

    Razak God will see you through in heaven.

  • ODEHYEEBA KAAKYIRE, CAPITAL TV-ACCRA 11 years ago

    WHY ARE OUR YOUNG STARS DYING IN ABROAD LIKE THAT? ONE NEARLY DIED IN ITALY THROUGH TRAIN CRUSH AND IS NOW IN INTENSIVE CARE, WHY THIS? LET US ARISE AND PRAY FOR OUR STARS STRUGGLING OUTSIDE GHANA. THEY ARE OUR BROTHERS. MAY ...
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