17-year-old JHS student drowns in a pit at Kasoa

According to a Daily Graphic report, the Junior High School student had gone to the pit filled with stagnant water to swim with some of his classmates when the incident happened.

The form 3 student who had closed from a weekend class drowned in the process.

His body was retrieved around midday on Sunday, June 12, 2022.

The body has since been deposited at a mortuary at Budumburam while the police continue investigating the incident.