Audio: “I was bent on protecting my daily bread”- June 3 survivor recounts ordeal

 
Doris Nyarko, a survivor  of the June 3 twin disaster that struck Ghana five years ago, says she was bent on protecting the credit cards and other things which were her only source of income.
Over 150 people perished in the twin disaster on Wednesday 3rd June, 2015.
Recounting  her ordeal  on Atinka AM Drive with host Ekourba Gyasi, Doris Nyarko, said she had gone to seek refuge at the Shell Fuel station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle when the unfortunate incident occurred.
Doris Nyarko, who is a mother of one, said prior to the disaster, she usually picked  her son from school, left him in the care of his father and then return to the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to continue her business.
She narrated that on June 3rd 2015, she was returning from the house after leaving her son with the father when the rains started.
“When I got to circle, the intensity of the rain had increased but I still had to continue to circle and pick the things I had left. When I got to the Shell filing  station at Kwame Nkrumah Circle,people had already sought refuge there waiting for the rains to  stop. We were there until 11:00pm when we felt that the water beneath us was getting hot. I quickly told the guy next to me that something else had come into contact with the water and eventually it was petrol. The men who were with us at the fuel station tried to help us cross to the other side of the fuel station but to no avail. We heard a ‘blast’ suggesting that an explosion had occurred and that was the last time I saw all the people who were with me at the fuel station. I didn’t see anything again until I was lifted out of the flood by a good Samaritan,” she recalled.
According to  Doris Nyarko, when she regained consciousness, she realized that she was lying around the Adabraka Police station.
She added that the good Samaritan charted a taxi and took her to the hospital with the assurance that he would come back to visit.
It has been five years and Doris Nyarko says she is yet to set her eyes on the good Samaritan.
 
 

 
Ghana | Atinkonline.com | Vivian Adu Boatemaa

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