A teacher drowns trying to retrieve money from a well

A 40-year-old man lost his life while trying to retrieve a sum of money from an abandoned well in Adugyama, a farming community in the Ashanti region of Ghana.

“The teacher drowned immediately he risked his life and entered the deep well,” reports said.

“The money belonged to a neighbour and it accidentally fell into the well that fateful day,” reports said.

The deceased was trying to be a Good Samaritan, decided to help by retrieving the money from the well and drowned in the process.

A team of fire personnel from Tepa came and removed the deceased from the abandoned well.

The deceased was quickly rushed to Mankranso Government Hospital, where he was declared dead by medical personnel on duty.

“The body has since been deposited at Plus Lab mortuary at Mankranso for preservation and autopsy,” reports stated.