MORE than 60 people are feared drowned after their overloaded boat sank on Ghana’s sprawling Volta Lake at the weekend, police in Accra said on Tuesday. The accident happened some 500km northeast of the capital. Some 25 passengers who survived and swam to safety told police that the boat, which sank in high winds on Friday, was carrying more than 90 people and was overloaded with cargo including five cows, 150000 yams and 300 bags of groundnuts. Police and personnel from the National Disaster Management Organisation said they were making “frantic efforts” to retrieve the drowning victims from the lake. Two similar accidents occurred on Volta Lake in August 1994 and April 1995, with death tolls of 60 and 100, respectively.