Cape Coast (Central Region) -- Master Prince Quansah, a 17-year-old student of the Mfantsipim Secondary School in Cape Coast on Saturday drowned in the sea while swimming.

The police at Cape told the GNA on Sunday that the Quansah and other students, Kakrabah Arthur, Charles Hooper and Kweku Tweneboah-Kodua, who stayed at a hostel near the school went to the beach near the Cape Coast castle. His colleagues decided not to swim but Quansah joined some boys already in the sea and he later drowned.

According to the police his body, which was later retrieved by Kofi Kawassa, a fisherman, had been deposited at the Cape Coast Hospital for autopsy while the other three students were helping in investigations.

The deceased and his colleagues were expected to participate in the school's 126th speech and prize giving day celebrations activities that took place on the day of the incident.