Five killed in Ghana floods

DAKAR - AlertNet has reported that floods have destroyed homes and cut off several roads and bridges in Ghana’s capital city of Accra, leaving several residents stranded, media in the West African nation on Wednesday.

Flood victims

Torrential rains on Tuesday night caused streams, rivers and blocked drainages to overflow.

“Major roads in the capital including Graphic road and Nkrumah circle have been submerged by the rains preventing workers from getting to their offices,” the Daily Guide newspaper said.  Five people are reported to have been killed by the floods.

New Patriotic Party flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Flagbearer of Ghana's New Patriotic Party  has in a statement sympathised with flood victims of last night’s heavy rains which is reported to have killed 5 people.

The rain is also believed to have destroyed several properties running into thousands of Ghana cedis. Thousands are homeless, injured or lost. Nana called on the government to make radical changes to the country's town planning laws. He also urged doctors and medical personnel to help victims.

Ghana’s President, John Atta Mills, has visited some of the flood-hit districts of Accra.