About five hundred passengers would have perished on board a Yeji-bound ferry from Makango near Tamale, but for the swift intervention of rescuers. The ferry, reported to have been overloaded with about four cars, other cargo and passengers, started sinking due to a leakage.
Reports say the operators of the vessel identified a leakage and begun a process to get the passengers ashore by calling in rescue boats. Two boats belonging to the Ghana Navy, which were on a training exercise in the area, came in swiftly to rescue the passengers and crew on-board. The Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, who confirmed the incident, says, in the Makango area, this is the first time a ferry was capsizing although it happens with boats.
“At a point in time, the managers on-board detected that it was leaking and that water was entering the ferry so they quickly had to transfer all the passengers on-board onto another boat to take them offshore safely. So as we speak, nobody is reported dead and there is no casualty.” “It was travelling from Makango to Yeji.
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