Falling Trees Kill at Least 19 at Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana<br />The bodies of 13 high school students, three university students<br />and three local residents had been recovered at the waterfall in the Brong-Ahafo region, about 250 miles north of the capital, Accra, according to Siegfried Kwame Addo, a municipal official in Kintampo.<br />Ghana’s tourism minister, Catherine Afeku, who was in the vice president’s delegation, expressed sympathies to the victims’ relatives<br />and said the government would put into place security measures at the waterfall and other tourist sites in Ghana to improve the safety of visitors.<br />By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 20, 2017<br />ACCRA, Ghana — A rainstorm toppled trees onto people at the Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana, killing at least 19, most of them students who were visiting<br />and swimming at the popular tourist site, officials said on Monday.
