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Some 70 drown in lake

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    About 70 people are feared drowned after their overloaded boat sank in Lake Volta on Friday, news reports said. Ghana’s ‘Daily Graphic’ reported the boat, carrying 90 passengers from Kete-Krachi to Tapa-Abotouse, sank two nautical miles from its destination, some 500 km from the nation’s capital, Accra. AFP reported that some 25 survivors told police the boat was overloaded with agricultural produce and livestock when it ran against high winds. Two similar accidents occurred in the lake in 1994 and 1995, AFP said.

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