A Desperate attempt by a naive six-year-old girl to save her slippers worth GH¢4 from being taken away by flood has turned disastrous.
The inexperienced toddler slipped and fell heavily into an open drainage system and she was quickly carried away by the raging water, resulting in her death.
The unpleasant incident was said to have happened at Kwadaso in the newly created Kwadaso Municipality in the Ashanti Region on Thursday afternoon.
The body of the young girl (name withheld) was later on retrieved and deposited at a morgue at a medical facility for autopsy.
Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicated that the body of the deceased was expected to be buried by the bereaved family latest by last Saturday.
Kwaku Asanka aka ‘Mustapha’, an eye witness, disclosed that the bereaved family is totally shattered, following the loss of the young and innocent girl.
He said it was raining heavily at Kwadaso on that fateful Thursday afternoon and the six-year-old girl and her friends were happily playing.
Kwaku Asanka noted that a certain man in the area saw the six-year-old girl playing barefooted; he told her to go and wear slippers.
The young girl obliged, and whilst playing with her friends, one of her slippers fell into the gutter, which was filled with raging water.
The naive girl then attempted to remove it from the raging water. Unfortunately, as she crawled to pick it, she slipped into the gutter, and she was carried away.
Source: Daily Guide
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may the soul rest in peace. parents or gurdians should be extra careful.
how can you blame poverty for this tragic incident it's irresponsibility on the part of her parents of guardians they should be arrested for negligence why is the girl playing in the rain /flood waters it does not make sense.
sue the local assembly. it is their duty not to leave open drains
Thiis is simply as a result of poverty in africa.The small girl woould have ignored the slippers knowing that it could easily be replaced. She could have been beaten seveerely for losing her slippers before replacement. Poverty is the cause.
Aww thats a very tragic loss. Now the man will who told her to go and wear slippers will be blamed.