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Seventeen persons have been confirmed dead in an accident that occurred on the Buipe-Tamale highway in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region Wednesday morning.
It happened at Mile 40 (Sarekyekura) near Fulfulso at about 12:12 am.
The deceased include 12 males, five females, one of which was a child.
Sixteen out of the 17 reportedly died on the spot while another died at the Holistic Medicare Hospital at Buipe.
The accident involved two buses with registration numbers GT 3345-16 and AC 1699-20.
They were traveling from Kumasi to Zebila and from Garu to Kumasi respectively when they ran into each other.
The Savannah Regional Commander of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Assistant Chief Fire Officer (ACFO), Mr Kwasi Baffour-Awuah who confirmed the accident to Graphic Online said the Buipe Fire Station received a distress call at 12.46 am and arrived at the accident scene at 1.20 am.
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Six persons have been confirmed dead following an accident that occurred at Mpaha Junction along the Tamale-Buipe highway in the Savannah Region on Thursday, January 21, 2021.
The accident, which also left five persons with various degrees of injuries, involved a Sprinter Benz bus which was traveling from Kumasi to Tamale and a Rhino Kia truck that was also traveling from Tamale to Accra.
According to the police, the accident occurred around 4:48am when the driver of the sprinter bus with registration number AS 5618 - 18 lost control when the car tyre burst and ran into the Kia Rhino truck with registration number, GN 5316 - 13.