A seven year-old boy got drowned in the early hours of Sunday in the Pomasu River at Atronie in the Sunyani municipality.
Superintendent Charles Botwe, Municipal Police commander told the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday that the deceased, Alhaji Siaka, and three others
went to swim in the river.
He said when they got to the river they found that it had overflowed its banks due to a recent downpour but they ignored it jumped into it.
When later the three others could not find Siaka they went home and reported to the boy's parents.
A search party found the boy's body and reported it to the police who retrieved it and deposited it at the Regional Hospital in Sunyani pending autopsy.