Twenty students have died after trees fell on them at a favorite waterfall in Ghana, emergency officials have said.

National fire service spokesman Billy Anaglate said the group of high school students were swimming at the popular Kintampo waterfalls in the Brong-Ahafo area, when the unusual incident happened.

He said: “the students were swimming in the river when there clearly a storm and a windy atmosphere that had uprooted a few of the trees and they’d fallen on a number of them – people who were apparently swimming.”

Eighteen students died at the scene and two others died in hospital, Mr Anaglate said.

He added that 11 more casualties were receiving treatment, including the school administrators who was simply in charge of the trip.

Ghana’s tourism minister Catherine Abelema Afeku said in a record: “We extend our condolences to the families of the dead and pray for the
injured ones.”

Source : http://fsbuq.com/twenty-students-die-freak-tree-accident-waterfall/