Tragedy,floods kill family of three in kumasi

PARTS of the Accra metroplis experienced heavy flooding again during Sunday’s downpour.
The rain which lasted for almost the whole day, affected both economic and church activities in the capital.
The streets were mostly empty in some areas with most residents staying indoors to avoid any mishap in the course of the downpour.
While the the main Odaw drain was filled to its brim, the Obetsebi Lamptey Circle, Mpramprom, under the Kaneshie overheard bridges, First Light, Dansoman junction and the Darkuman junction were affected.
The frontage of the PHC Motors, on the side of the Royal House Chapel and parts of the Graphic Road, among other places were also flooded.
All the major and minor drains were flooded making the flow of water difficult.
At the First Light, some younmen took advantage of the situation to charge GHC 1 to carry? stranded persons from one end of the road to the other.
These youngmen also were seen pushing vehicles that got stuck in the flood water for a fee. An elderly woman and the grand child died on June 19, during a heavy downpour.
During a tour of flood-prone areas last Thursday, the Head of Drainage and Flood Control at the Hydraulogical Services Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Hosing, Mr Wise Ametefe Last At the First Light, said a major drain at First Light needed to be redesigned and expanded.
He said the drain which took water from Mataheko, Bubuashie and Darkuman was too narrow to take the volume of water from those areas.
Compounding the problem, he said, was the laying of a utility cable and choking of the drain by garbage and plastic wastes.