Swimming is one of the best exercise one can ever have. After a hard day's work, one can relieve the stress, anxiety and tiredness by just taking a swim.
People in the urban centers have relaxing environment and well clean swimming pool where they go to swim especially during the weekends but this is far different in most rural areas. The people in the rural areas and those closer to sea shores swim in most at time in an unkept rivers and in the sea respectively.
Swimming in rivers and in the sea without special skills can be very catastrophic. This is what has recently happen to the people of Apam in the Gomoa West District of Central Region.
On Sunday, 7th March, 2021 a number of children between the ages of 14 and 17 years of age got drowned in the sea. According people of Apam area, children organize themselves on weekends especially on Sunday to take a swim in the part of the sea closer to Apam beach.
On the above date, 20 children who went to same place to swim feared dead. According police, two of the children has been rescued alive and are receiving treatment at St. Luke Catholic Hospital.
The police department added that, on Monday, 8th March 2021 the Rescue Team has retrieved 13 bodies and have been deposited at the Morgue of same hospital. There are however some bodies still in the sea yet to be retrieved.
The people especially those who have been deeply affected are in a deep sorrow.
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