{"id":167275,"date":"2022-11-23T18:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=167275"},"modified":"2022-11-23T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:22:35","slug":"british-expat-died-in-jet-ski-tragedy-on-ghana-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/british-expat-died-in-jet-ski-tragedy-on-ghana-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"British expat died in jet ski tragedy on Ghana lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>British expat died in jet ski tragedy on Ghana lake: Father-of-three, 49, &#8216;fell and hit head as he raced over water while family watched form riverbank&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A Briton drowned in a Ghanaian\u00a0river after falling from a jet-ski, an inquest heard<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>He was jetskiing on the Volta River in Alorkpem when he dissipated\u00a0from\u00a0view<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gwyn is originally from Wales but had lived in Ghana for more than nine years\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A British expat drowned in a river in Ghana after falling from a jet-ski, an inquest heard today.<\/p>\n<p>Iwan Gwyn, 49, a married quantity surveyor of Pontllyfni, died on December 30 while relaxing with friends and family in Africa where he had lived, coroner Sarah Riley said.<\/p>\n<p>Gwyn was jet-skiing out on the Volta River in Alorkpem shortly before 6pm when his family noticed they could no longer see him.<\/p>\n<p>His body was recovered some hours later by fishermen, who called emergency services which took\u00a0Gwyn to the nearest hospital, where he was declared dead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/23\/17\/64870337-0-image-a-1_1669224561263.jpg\" height=\"904\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Iwan Gwyn, 49, a married quantity surveyor, of Pontllyfni, died on December 30 while relaxing with friends and family in Ghana where he had lived<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy gave &#8216;asphyxiation or drowning and blunt head injury&#8217; as the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It appeared Iwan had an unwitnessed fall from the jetski,&#8217; the coroner said at Caernarfon. &#8216;He&#8217;d probably hit his head after it happened.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Gwyn, 49, is originally from Llanaelhaearn \u2014 a village in Wales \u2014 but had lived in Ghana for more than nine years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The direct cause of death was drowning. Iwan had been enjoying time with friends and family when he went out on his jetski,&#8217; said Riley, according to the Daily Post.<\/p>\n<p>He died on December 30, with the inquest taking almost a year to establish the cause of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sometime later they noticed they could no longer see Iwan, and he was discovered some hours later unresponsive by local fishermen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/11\/23\/17\/64870343-0-image-m-4_1669224641299.jpg\" height=\"466\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gwyn, 49, is originally from Llanaelhaearn \u2014 a village in Wales \u2014 but had lived in Ghana for more than nine years with his wife<\/p>\n<p>He suffered an unwitnessed fall from the jet ski and hit his head during or after the fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;His death was both unexpected and unintended. I have concluded that Mr Gwyn&#8217;s death was accidental.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>His brother Dafydd said: &#8216;The family would like to thank everyone who has been in touch to express their sympathies during this very sad time.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Fydd colled enfawr ar ei ol\u2019, he said, Welsh for: &#8216;He will be greatly missed&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11462715\/British-expat-died-jet-ski-tragedy-Ghana-lake.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British expat died in jet ski tragedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>British expat died in jet ski tragedy on Ghana lake - 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