A pregnant woman has died after falling into a well while fetching water with 3 of her children.
The sad incident happened in Sekondi Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana.
The woman, identified as Efua Amoaba was said to have died without the knowledge of her children who returned home without raising alarm.
Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Coordinator, James Obeng Jnr confirmed the unfortunate happening to the media.
“Preliminary investigations note that the woman left home on December 20 to go to the well but she was not found until Wednesday when residents raised an alarm that someone was floating in the well.
Our personnel visited the scene and retrieved the body only to discover the victim was actually pregnant,” he told Adom Fm online.
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Police have since moved the body to the mortuary for preservation and further investigations.
