Seven people among 20 travelers installed a boat they were going on got suffocated after the boat upset on the Volta Lake following a weighty tempest that hit it halfway through the excursion.
The boat was going from Tongor-Dzemeni in the South Dayi District of the Volta Region to Havorkope Island in the Kwahu Afram Plains North District of the Eastern Region.
Groups of the expired - Aku Dzetror, 65, Aku Adanyo, 55, Mary Magic, 39, Faulting Kpeli, 32, Esther Akorli, 31, Evelyn Akpaglo, 31, and Edward Gati, 31 - have been recovered and kept at a private morgue on the Island.
The Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ebenezer Tetteh, told the Ghana News Agency that the excess 13 travelers were saved, nonetheless, the boat administrator had not been found and was dreaded to have suffocated as well.
A group of anglers and heros are looking for the boat administrator," DSP Tetteh said, adding that further advancement about the circumstance would be conveyed.
In the interim a few occupants of Tongor-Gyemeni say around 30 individuals on board the boat are dreaded dead after it upset.
Mr John Kofi Abbery, a senior at Tongor-Dzemeni, who visited the scene following the episode, expressed near 30 bodies were recovered from the stream at the hour of his visit and that the majority of the casualties were ladies and a few understudies going to their folks for the Easter break.
"In the event that you are not a man you can't take a gander at the bodies, they are a large number. This is difficult," he said.
Miss Golo Doh Benedicta, a 16-year-old survivor, who addressed the GNA through telephone from Havorkope, said the episode happened at around 1600 to 1700 hours on Thursday, April 14.
She said the detachable engine of the boat went off and water started to enter when the tempest hit.
"A few of us were yelling, others were crying, howling and calling for help from God since we saw the boat was sinking," she said, depicting the episode as awful.
She said she hopped onto one of the sheets of the boat and was drifting on the outer layer of the water before one more boat acted the hero and a few different travelers.
The boat was conveying manures and beverages among different products, she said, adding; "I made due by beauty, I truly saw my demise, I could do nothing. I was apprehensive and crying yet I say thanks to God for saving my life."
Mr Mawuta Kpetigo, an educator at Havorkope, who likewise affirmed the episode, said search tasks were continuous to recover the other bodies.
"My senior sister is likewise among the people in question, yet her body hasn't been found at this point, so we are as yet searching for herself and different bodies," he said.
In excess of 500 individuals from the local area were assembled at the shore while the hunt proceeded and the mind-set was sad, Mr Kpetigo said.
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