First-year student of the University of Ghana drowns in a pool [video]

University of Ghana student drowns
First-year student of the University of Ghana drowns in a swimming pool.

A male student of the University of Ghana has died after drowning in the university’s swimming pool on Saturday, January 29, 2022, while swimming with some friends.

Radio Univers reports that the student, whose name is yet to be made public, was at Level 100.

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University of Ghana student drowns
First-year student of the University of Ghana drowns in a swimming pool.

”[He] drowned after he attempted to swim at a depth of 21 feet in the pool this afternoon,” Radio Univers said on its website.

In an interview with campus radio, an eyewitness narrated that the deceased ”went to the 21ft and was asked to go back the first time, not knowing, he went there again. The next thing they heard was that he had drowned.

A short clip circulated widely on social media shows some young students of the University of Ghana retrieving the body from the swimming pool and trying to revive him.

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Currently, the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) across the country are on strike, so have reported to the various universities, teaching is not going on.

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