A lady, matured 41, has suffocated with three youngsters in a pit dove in the Keta Tidal pond at Laklevikope, close to Aflao, in the Ketu South District.
The episode occurred on Saturday when Lady Yawa Apenu was purportedly fishing with Bridget Amewu, 14, and Daddy Amewu, 10 - her kids and a third kid, Sitsofe Ahiawor, 8, who lived with the family.
Mr Atitso Amewu, the single man, who was supposed to be on the endeavor, notwithstanding, figured out how to swim to somewhere safe.
A few occupants, who addressed the Ghana News Organization (GNA), said they thought that the pit was dug by the Seven Oceans Salt Restricted, which had an uncompleted dyke on its concessions nearby.In any case, the organization has denied the case.
In July, two individuals apparently suffocated along that stretch of the tidal pond, when they endeavored to fish.
Mr Victor Ayaku, Get together part for the region, in a meeting with the GNA following that episode said that:"There's no type of security around the dykes, no boundary and it's practically similar to a demise trap to clueless occupants who should go fishing in the tidal pond."
However, Mr Adams Mensah, the Advertising Official of Seven Oceans Salt Restricted, said the Organization was not to fault keep going for Saturday's catastrophe.
He said the pit was outside the organization's concession and that it was a fish lake having a place with a not known person to the Organization.Communicating his compassion over the deficiency of lives, he said that the mining organization was prepared to help the group of the departed.
He encouraged joint effort among them and partners, particularly the gathering individuals in networks where the Organization had concessions, to attempt to forestall such avoidable passings.
Mr Mensah said however the Organization had developed signs on risk, which it would begin mounting on its concessions from Monday to avoid individuals and fishers from profound pit regions, it would likewise do training efforts.Individuals, he said, could utilize sticks to test the profundity of the water while fishing to keep away from debacles since certain people had fish lakes made in the tidal pond.
In the mean time, a Police source, which affirmed the occurrence to the GNA, said the bodies had been kept at the mortuary, while a gathering had been booked with the group of the departed to help in examinations.
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