Tragedy struck at Mamobi, an Accra suburb, on Sunday when four girls from the area drowned at the Mensah Guinea segment of the Accra Beach near the Arts Centre.
The Mensah Guinea beach is notorious for such accidents.
Mamobi was thrown into mourning following news of the death of the four school girls.
Two of them were identified as Farida and Hamdiya, but the identities of the two others were still unknown as at press time yesterday. They have since been buried at the Madina cemetery under Islamic tradition. One had earlier been buried on Sunday.
Daily Guide leant that they had gone to the beach to swim to while away the time.
It is usual for teenagers to go swimming at the beach but most of them are normally not good swimmers and with no lifeguards around, tragedies have often been recorded.
As if he had a premonition, Daily Guide learnt, the father of one of the girls warned her not to go to the beach but she defiled her father’s advice.
The cause of the tragedy was unknown but speculations are rife that the Sunday early morning downpour might have resulted in high tide leading to the mishap.
Police were unaware of the tragic incident as at press time yesterday.
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