The mower that 'crushed’ the BECE candidate
A candidate in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) died in a freak accident Friday when a flying stone from a functioning industrial mower struck him at the Opoku Ware School Examination Centre in Kumasi where he was writing the examination.
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Frank Nnuro, a pupil of the State Experimental JHS in Kumasi, had just finished writing the Ghanaian Language Paper One and was preparing for the next paper when the incident occurred.
A female candidate who was also hit by another stone, however, survived after treatment at a nearby clinic.
The mower was mounted at the back of a tractor and was being used to clear the Opoku Ware Scho
ol football field.
Nnuro was described by his mates as one of the brilliant and respectful pupils in his class.
His remains have been deposited at the morgue of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).
The State Experimental School is among 29 schools with 1,245 candidates writing this year’s BECE at the Opoku Ware School.
Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Headmaster of the Opoku Ware School, Mr F.M. Oppong-Mensah, said he was in a meeting in the school when he was informed of Nnuro’s untimely death around 10.15 a.m.
He said the school’s football field was weedy and the school had gone for a tractor with a mower from Prempeh College to clear the field.
The headmaster said in the course of clearing the field, the mower crushed a stone, a piece of which hit Nnuro in the ribs which made him to bleed profusely.
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A girl who was with Nnuro was also hit at the back, without the tractor driver, one Osman, noticing what had happened.
Mr Oppong-Mensah stated that the two were quickly rushed to the nearby Matter Dei Hospital, where Nnuro was pronounced dead on arrival.
The girl was, however, treated and discharged.
The Suntreso Polic
e have taken over investigations into the case.
Meanwhile, one of the supervisors at the examination centre, who is also the Assistant Headmaster (Academic) of the Opoku Ware School, Mr Benjamin Kwaku Baah, said the situation was calm after the incident.
When the Daily Graphic visited the centre, the candidates were preparing to write French Paper One.