The lifeless body of a 16-year-old first year student of the University Practice Senior High School (UPSHS),\u00a0 was in the early hours of Friday found on the seashore near Saint Augustine\u2019s College in Cape Coast.<\/p>\n
The body of Shadrach Ekow Arthur,\u00a0 believed to have drowned while swimming in the stretch of the sea near Duakor, a fishing community close to the University of Cape Coast (UCC) on Thursday, has since been deposited at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital morgue for autopsy.<\/p>\n
The father of the deceased, Mr. Thomas Ekow Arthur, a 54-year-old unemployed, resident of Apewosika near the\u00a0\u00a0University of Cape Coast, in an interview on Monday said, \u00a0on that fateful Thursday, he left the deceased at home for a church programme in the company of his elder brother.<\/p>\n
He said the deceased, a General Arts student, was unable to attend the programme with him as he usually did, because of some assignment he had to complete before school re-opened on Monday, May 5.<\/p>\n
Mr Arthur said while he was at the church programme,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he received a phone call that his son had drowned, so he rushed\u00a0\u00a0to\u00a0\u00a0the beach, but on\u00a0\u00a0reaching there, efforts by him, some church and family members to retrieve the body were unsuccessful,\u00a0 until the lifeless body\u00a0of the deceased\u00a0\u00a0was\u00a0\u00a0found on Friday morning by some fishermen.<\/p>\n
The elder brother of the deceased could not also\u00a0\u00a0explain how his late brother got to the beach, but said the deceased was in the house until\u00a0\u00a0around 1600 hours\u00a0 when suddenly\u00a0\u00a0he could not \u00a0be found, only to hear of his death later.<\/p>\n
Family and friends who gathered at the deceased\u2019s house described him as a very intelligent, humble, respectful and hardworking boy, whose attributes won him many academic awards while\u00a0\u00a0in basic school.<\/p>\n
The UCC Police confirmed the incident, and said they were collaborating with the Metropolitan Police to\u00a0\u00a0launch investigations into the matter.<\/p>\n
In a related development, the body of a 75-year-old fisherman from Duakor, Ababio Agbeyo, was also washed ashore on Friday.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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