Eighteen passengers died while 45 others were injured when the vehicles in which they were travelling crashed head-on yesterday at Sarekyekuta near Buipe in the Central Gonja District on the Tamale-Kumasi main road.
Sixteen were said to have died on the spot while two others were pronounced dead at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH).
Acting Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Savannah Region, Inspector Agyekum Owusu, who confirmed this to the Ghanaian Times,said that the bodies of the dead had been deposited at the Holistic Medical Hospital, at Buipe and TTH mortuaries.
He indicated that some of the injured were taken to TTH, while others were rushed to Holistic Medical Hospital at Buipe.
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