
Seventy one {7
1} }people were confirmed dead after a bus hit a cargo truck north of Ghana's second city Kumasi overnight.The head-on crash,which left thirteen {
13} people seriously injured,occurred 420 km {260 miles} north of the capital Accra when a Metro Mass Transit coach bound for the northern town of Tamale from the city of Kumasi hit a truck loaded with boxes of tomatoes,regional police chief Maxwell Atingane said.''Many of the passengers on the bus died on the spot.Initial reports suggested a mechanical failure on the bus caused the accident but police were investigating''. Ghana,like many other African countries,has a relatively high rate of road deaths due in part to narrow and poorly constructed roads,failure by drivers to respect speed limits and inadequate vehicle maintenance.Some of the injured had been evacuated by air for treatment in Kumasi.One more photo below.
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