Three teens drowned in a swimming pool and a stagnant pool in two separate occurrences.
Last Saturday, two separate instances happened at New Aplaku, in the Greater Accra Region's Ga South municipality, and Asarekrom, near Gomoa Buduburam, in the Central Region's Gomoa East District.
Oliver Ayertei Tetteh, a second-year student at St John's Grammar School in Accra, and Christabel Agyekumwaa, also 17, a second-year student at the Methodist SHS in Saltpond in the Central Region, drowned in a pool at the Lion of Judah Foods and Events Centre in Aplaku.
Patrick Nyarko, a 17-year-old final-year student at Opeikuma D/A Junior High School (JHS), was discovered dead in a stagnant pool. Friends
Oliver's uncle, Fred Tetteh, told the Daily Graphic that his nephew and Christabel had known one other since junior high.
He claimed Oliver informed his father last Saturday that he was having problems with his phone and that he wanted to go to Kasoa to have it fixed.
His nephew apparently went to Christabel's residence first and requested her to join him to Kasoa to fix his phone, he added.
When Oliver's father contacted the boy's phone numerous times about 3 p.m. on that fatal day when he hadn't come home, Mr Tetteh stated there was no answer, despite the fact that it was ringing.
"My brother then said his son might be in a noisy environment," he explained, "but 30 minutes later, Christabel's grandfather, Williams Amoah, called my brother to tell him that his granddaughter had told him that he was going out with Oliver but that all attempts to reach her on the phone had failed."
Apprehension
When Mr Tetteh's brother told Mr Amoah that he, too, had tried unsuccessfully to contact his son, they agreed that the kids may be at an area where music was being played.
They were worried at 4:30 p.m., according to Mr Tetteh, and proceeded to the SCC Police Station to report the incident. He claimed the cops grabbed their phone numbers and promised to contact them if they had any information on the two teens' location.
He claimed the police phoned Christabel's grandfather at 6:30 p.m. and requested him to call Oliver's father and have them come to the police station to verify information on two youngsters that the police had.
"When they arrived at the police station, the commander informed them that a woman had called to report that three children had gone to her house to swim but had drowned.
"As soon as the commander gave them the deceased's images, my brother and Mr Amoah agreed that they were the ones being sought," he said.
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