Final year student drowns on Easter Good Friday

March 26, 2016 11:31 AM

According to report, the final year student got drowned when he and two of his friends went to swim in the dam.

Easter Friday was a sad say for students of Notre Dame Minor Seminary Secondary School at Navrongo in the Upper East Region when a final year student died when he drowned in a dam on the school premises on Easter Friday.

The body of the deceased has been deposited at the Bolgatanga Hospital Morgue.

According to the Head teacher of the school, Reverend Father Francis Koledogo, the students were warned on a number of occasions not to go and swim in the dam saying it was against the school rules.

He dispelled rumours that suggested that the student committed suicide after he was punished by school authorities for an unknown offence.

He said the deceased would be buried on Monday.

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The police has, however, launched an investigations into the incident.

Kojo Emmanuel

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