One Dead In Tuesday’s Flooding After Heavy Downpour

One person has died at Odawna, a suburb of Accra, after five hours of heavy rains flooded parts of the capital city on Tuesday.

The victim was said to have been electrocuted.

A joint team of Military and National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) personnel who went on a rescue mission at the area has since retrieved the body.

The deceased was said to have been exposed to high voltage electricity while salvaging properties from his flooded home.

The rescue team also managed to rescue at least 20 other people. Many people around the Accra central area were left stranded by the floods.

At the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, the heavy downpour had also destroyed properties worth thousands.

It is the main rainy season in Southern Ghana and the flooding of the capital on Tuesday was just the repetition of a perennial cycle in which at least a few people are killed every year, as authorities continue to be clueless as to how to end the flooding in Accra.

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