Girl Dies On Her Birthday After Falling Into Septic Tank

A five year old girl fell into a septic tank and died at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region on her birthday on Thursday. The body of Akyia Obeng has since been retrieved from the septic tank (popularly known as manhole) on Thursday, April 21, 2022. After four hours of searching for the girl by her family and neighbours, a search party found the

body floating in the septic tank, which was partly covered with wood. Three square openings too on the top of the septic tank had been covered with Wawa boards some of them were also found broken and when the search party looked through that opening the body was found. It is suspected that the little girl was then playing around the

septic tank when she then accidentally stepped on the wooden board and it gave way. According to the uncle of the deceased, Yaw Kitoa who spoke on a Kumasi based Silver FM, his nephew celebrated her birthday yesterday, April 21, 2022. He said that the saddest and unfortunate thing is she also died on the same day at about 10am.

Narrating how the incident occurred, the uncle revealed that, the young girl together with her elder brother were playing around the wretched Septic. According to him, they went and stood on the weak wooden slabs on the manhole when the side of the wood in which deceased stood, broke, and leading to her falling into the pit. By the

time we reached there, she had already drown in the faeces. Magots all over her nostrils, mouth, ear and other holes on the body, Yaw Kitoa added during the interview with the media. The body has since been removed from the pit and buried.