Falling trees kill 20 swimming students

ACCRA: Twenty students died after trees fell on them while swimming in a river during a storm in Ghana, emergency officials said on Sunday. Ghana National Fire Service spokesman Billy Anaglate said the “unusual incident” happened on Sunday afternoon, when a group of high school students were swimming at the Kintampo waterfalls, a popular tourist destination in the Brong-Ahafo region. Mr Anaglate said a storm caused trees to topple and fall on the teenagers while they were in the water. “They were swimming in the river when there was a storm, a windy atmosphere that had uprooted some of the trees and they had fallen on some of them,” he said.