Parents fight KUMACA security in attempt to prevent them from sending their children home

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Tension heightened at the Kumasi Academy (KUMACA), Tuesday 5th November 2017, in the Ashanti Region, as some parents clashed with the security personnel in charge when they attempted to prevent them from sending their wards home.

Scores of parents who have their children at the school stormed the school to forceful take them away after reports of multiple death cases of some of the students.

Four of the students were reported to have died mysteriously that morning whiles 27 others were sent to the hospital after they were attacked by strange disease.

The parents upon hearing this macabre news besieged the campus  to vigorously demand the release of their wards to them but attempts were made by the security personnel to prevent them from taking the students out of campus.

However, the parents who got provoked by the actions of the security men angrily pounced on them, thereby forcing them to open the main gate for them the parents to leave with their children.

One of the parents who spoke with Agyenkwa News Eric Boakye said "I am taking my child home. I can't leave him here in the school because he might be the next victim".

Meanwhile, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon. Simon Osei Mensah during a meeting with the PTA at the school said the school will be closed in the next three days.

He noted that arrangements have been done to vaccinate the students and staff of the school before the school will be closed in order to prevent any infections.

The closure according to him is to enable smooth thorough investigations into the circumstances that has led to the deaths of the students and the unusual disease outbreak.

"We are going to screen all the students and teachers of the school within the next three days to prevent any infections in case any of them has been affected".

Some parents and guardians have insisted to withdraw their children from the school due to the situation.

It will be recalled that some 4 students from the school died earlier this year from Meningitis, as according to autopsy report, whilst three others died just last week.

Another died on Tuesday morning, prompting parents to raise concerns about the safety of their wards in the school.

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research is expected to present a report on the cause of deaths on Wednesday.

Some parents were seen running about on the school premises on Tuesday in search of their wards.

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