Diaspora News of Friday, 8 August 2008

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Ghanaian in US found dead in pool

STOWE, VT, USA -- Police are investigating the death of a foreign worker who drowned in a pool at an inn where he worked.

The body of Joseph Nti Buabeng, 20, was recovered from the pool at the Gables Inn on Mountain Road after 10:35 p.m., police said. Buabeng was working at the inn as a student employee.

Police say an autopsy is being performed.

Buabeng, 20, had been in Vermont for about a month on a work exchange program.

Inn owner Randy Stern says Buabeng did various jobs, including landscaping and cleaning the pool and was not on duty when he drowned.