Another crash on the Buipe-Tamale highway has claimed two lives, bringing the lives lost in a similar manner to 26, with about 70 people sustaining injuries in a matter of two weeks.
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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Thirty persons who got injured in the accident that occurred at Mile 40 (Sarekyekura) near Fulfulso on the Buipe-Tamale highway, in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region, last Wednesday, have been treated and discharged from the various health institutions they were sent to for treatment.
Of the 32 who were sent to the Buipe Polyclinic and the Holistic Medicare Hospital, 25 were discharged while five out of the 20 sent to the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) were discharged yesterday, a day after the fatal accident.
The acting Public Relations Officer at the TTH, Mr Misboa Mohammed, told the Daily Graphic that there were 15 injured people still on admission, with four of them in critical condition while 11 with minor injuries were in stable condition.
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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.