10-year-old pupil drowns while swimming with friends at Tetekope beach

The deceased, whose name was given as Ericsson Lumor, met his untimely death on September 3, at about 1230 hours, while swimming together with a group of friends at the beach."Information l have gathered indicated that the boys, numbering about 6, were swimming in the sea, and in the course of swimming, the deceased was overpowered by the waves and pulled away from his colleagues, who raised an alarm for help," he said.

The GNA also gathered that the deceased was a class two pupil of Bishop Herman Basic School and was among other students expected to resume academic work in the coming weeks for the next term.