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Heavy downpour displaces residents in Tema

Tema Community 16 and 18 were mostly affected due to the heavy downpour on Tuesday, June 6
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Some parts of Tema got flooded due to the heavy downpour on Tuesday, June 6.

Tema Community 18, Sakumono, Klagon were not spared the rainstorm destruction.

READ MORE: Heavy downpour floods Sekondi-Takoradi

Dozens of homes were filled with rain water which rose to several feet high forcing residents to evacuate.

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“I want to thank my fathers, my brothers and sisters, and my mothers who came all the way to support me. I want to thank MTN Ghana Foundation—they gave me this wheelchair. God bless you.”

The extent of damage is not immediately known.

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Evans Anakwa, the Deputy National Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in charge of floods told Class FM that logistics and other equipment were being moved to the location to pump water out of some homes.

At Klagon to Sakumono area, hundreds of workers and students have been cut off Accra after flooding rendered an uncompleted bridge impassable.

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