A Sunday outing turned tragic when nine-year-old Yaa Serwaa, a pupil of Trinity Presbyterian Basic School in Koforidua, drowned in a swimming pool at Tonyx Hotel.

The heartbreaking incident has left her family and the local community in shock, while the police have launched an investigation.

Recalling the sequence of events, a family member told Starr FM, "The child didn't swim.

She sat near the pool to take pictures.