Kintampo: Two people drowned in Ponpon River 
Two brothers drowned in Ponpon water near Tankro, a village in Kintampo, the capital of Kintampo North Municipality of Bono East Region.
According to the report, a pregnant woman and two grown men were traveling from Tankro to Kintampo on a motorcycle. GBC news hasgathered that the heavy rain caused the Ponpon river which connects Tankro and Kintampo to overflow at about 3.30pm on Sunday.
According to residents of Nyakro, all efforts were made to prevent the motorcyclist from running into fellow motorists and bus drivers by stopping the water to recede before attempting to cross. will not go well. They say that, in an attempt to cross, the motorcycle split and ended upin the river.
The people who were thererushed to the spot and called NADMO officials and GNFS officials, who were able to savethe pregnant woman, an elderly man and the motorcyclist. Afterhours of searching, search teams were able to recover the body of a six-year-old girl this morning.
Kintampo North MCE Mr Isaac Baffoe Ameyaw told GBC News that the incident happened as an annual ritual and said that whenever this kind of incident happens they usually invite a fortune teller to perform some rituals that allow them to recover the body , but this time "every effort to recover. the body of a 4-year-old girl was unsuccessful”. The chairman of the regional unity committee,Mr. Kwaku Gyabuni, who took part in the incident, also spoke to GBC News and confirmedthe MCE's statement.
At the time of this report, the investigation team has stopped their work as the mother of the deceased brothers admittedthat she went to a fortune teller to help her conceive a child after years of infertility. The rescue team's decision to stop their work was to allow a soothsayer to perform a fewrituals to enable them to recover the body of a four-year-old girl.
The tragedy left many parts of Kintampo and Ntankro in a state of grief and mourning as families, friends and supportersof the deceased youth flocked to their homes to sympathizewith the deceased. where the families of the bereaved are. Many of them who could not control themselves cried a lot because they did not understand why the young people died in such a sad and sad way.