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BY: George Folley
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Preliminary police investigation into the ghastly road accident at Akyem Asafo on the Accra-Kumasi highway has attributed it to driver recklessness.
The driver of one of the two buses involved in the accident was said to have attempted to overtake four long vehicles in a row, leading to a head-on collision.
As of 4 p.m. yesterday, 19 persons had been confirmed dead in the accident that occurred at about 1.30 a.m. yesterday when two KIA Granbird passenger buses, one of them VIP branded, collided head-on.
The VIP bus with registration number GE 5510 -15 was heading to Accra from Sankore in the Ahafo Region while the other bus with registration number GT 5629 - 18 was from Accra heading to Kumasi.
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A notorious gang of highway robbers terrorising motorists in Akyem Kade and its environs in Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern region struck again Thursday night.
The robbers mounted roadblocks on Asuom to Kade road and shot at two vehicles including one being driven by a Priest of a Catholic Church.
Information gathered indicate that a driver Abubakari Sule, 37, reported to Police that on that fateful day that about 7:00 pm, whiles he was in charge of unregistered Honda CRV onboard by six persons from Asuom going to Kade, he suddenly noticed that the road has been blocked with firewood forcing him to reduce his speed. Shortly, eight (8) armed robbers wearing masks with some of them holding guns emerged from the bush and fired at his car.
An Ambulance driver, Senior Emergency Medical Technician (SNR EMT), Abraham Tetteh, who was shot by highway robbers on the Somanya-Adukrom road while transporting a woman in labour has died.
The late Abraham Tetteh, 40, until his demise at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on Saturday was the Yilo Krobo Municipal officer in charge of the National Ambulance Service.
It would be recalled that highway robbers on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at about 12:00 midnight attacked the ambulance vehicle and shot the driver in the head, while rushing a woman in labour from the Akuse Government Hospital to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua.