Tragedy struck the residents of Mpohor in the Western Region when information went round that Victor Kwame had drowned in the Butre River.

The Mpohor Police said the deceased went to farm with four of his friends at Mpohor in the early hours of Saturday July 7.

They said when they were returning home around 0900hours the same day, Kwame slipped on a wooden bridge along the Butre River and drowned shortly after.

The corpse has been deposited at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital awaiting autopsy.

The police have arrested the four friends who were with him to assist them in their investigations.**