TRAGIC: Well Swallows Three

Three young men, all in their late 30s, lost their lives at Gaani, a farming community close to Navrongo in the Kessena Nankana East Municipality, as they volunteered to clean a community well on Saturday June 1, 2013. On Sunday when Daily Guide visited the area, the entire community was thrown into state of mourning.
A Community elder, also a father of one of the deceased, who narrated the incident to the DAILY GUIDE at Gaani, said the water pump that was being used to draw out dirty water from the well, at a point could not do so due to the distance between the water tube and the water surface.
According to the community elder, the youngest among the three deceased offered to get into the well to pull the tube into the water, but while in the well he could no longer breathe due to inadequate air down the well. Then the second man entered to help the first man, unfortunately he also lost his breath. Sensing danger, the third man descended into the well to help his colleagues, but also lost his breath while trying to help the two out of the well.

Consequently all the three deceased fell into the bottom of the well, according to the community elder, and by the time they were brought out by personnel of the Ghana National Service, they were all motionless and were declared dead at the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital.
The three deceased were identified by the Community Elder as Ageedina Atiror, Ayidaana Azibayela and Apaaliba Atongo.
The Community elder, told the DAILY GUIDE that the death of three sons of the community was a great lost to their families and the entire community, but one concern to the residents of Gaani now, is where they will get water for drinking and other domestic uses.
Per the tradition of the people of the Gaani community, once their love ones die in that well, they will no longer use the well and it will, therefore, be closed down in respect of their memories.
A Well Drilling technology expert, Simon Ayine, explained to the DAILY GUIDE that the three lost their breath because of small volume of air in the well at the time they got in, saying, the pump had pulled out most of the air from the well, which had a very small air space at the top.
Over two hundred households in the community depended on this single well for water and with the current situation, residents there, especially the women and children, will have to travel about 2 kilometers to fetch water for their families.
They are, therefore, using this medium to appeal to the Kessena-Nankana East Municipality, the Member of Parliament for Navrongo Central, Mark Owen Woyongo and NGOs to help them as soon as possible to get another source of water.
The three were all buried in their family graves on Sunday June 2, 2013.

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Source - Highstreetmail