A 20-month-old baby boy has died and three women are severely injured after a mudslide collapsed a building at Tantri in the Central Region during Friday’s heavy downpour.
Following over 8 hours of continuous rain, a hillside gave way at 16:45 GMT, crushing three structures below where a family had taken shelter.
20-month-old Hanson Mensah was tragically pronounced dead at Ewim Polyclinic. A 17-year-old girl is fighting for her life at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital with severe head injuries.
The torrential rain has submerged multiple suburbs, homes, and roads in Cape Coast, leaving hundreds of residents displaced and stranded in gridlock traffic as drainage systems overflowed with plastic waste.
Emergency personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service rushed to the scene to assist, and Cape Coast Mayor George Justice Arthur has visited the family to offer condolences.
