GES commiserates with bereaved families of 8 drowned pupils

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has commiserated with the families of the eight pupils who drowned while crossing the Volta Lake from Atigagorme to school at Wayokape in the Sene East District in the Bono East Region.

According to the statement, the Director-General had already tasked the Regional and District Directors of Education to visit the families while preparations were ongoing to immediately provide counselling services to the School.

Eight school children drowned in the Volta Lake on Monday after a canoe on which they were travelling to school capsized at Wayokope, a fishing community in the Sene East District of the Bono East Region.

The children, numbering 20, were crossing the Lake from Atigagome, also a fishing community in the Sene East District, when the disaster occurred around 7:00 am.