World News | Road Crash Kills Five in Ghana
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. At least five persons lost their lives, and seven others were severely injured in a road crash along the Accra-Kumasi highway in Ghana on Monday, Police confirmed.
Accra [Ghana], April 4 (ANI/Xinhua): At least five persons lost their lives, and seven others were severely injured in a road crash along the Accra-Kumasi highway in Ghana on Monday, Police confirmed.
Ebenezer Tetteh, Spokesman for the Eastern Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service, said a van travelling from Kumasi, Ghana's second-largest city to Accra, rammed into an articulated truck travelling in the opposite direction early Monday.
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"Five persons on board the van, including the driver, died on the spot. Their bodies have been deposited at a morgue in the Eastern Region," he said.
Tetteh added that seven male occupants of the van were also severely injured and receiving treatment at a hospital in the Eastern Region.
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"Investigations are underway into the actual cause of the accident, and we shall keep the public informed about the outcome of investigations," he added. (ANI/Xinhua)
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