Lucky escape: Van, truck diving into the river a few minutes apart



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The timely intervention of Esereso residents in the Ashanti region averted a catastrophe, as a pbadenger van collapsed into a stream leaving a dozen children trapped under a bridge Monday night .

The pregio tro-tro Turned off the road and landed in the narrow river at a place called School Junction, but volunteers rescued the occupants, including the children, before firefighters arrived.

A few minutes after the residents conducted the rescue efforts to save the victims, a dump truck with brakes that failed also sank into the river. – Little lack of a crowd of locals who had gathered by the river to watch the children be saved from the van.

The trucker had, in a show of bravery, signaled to the many spectators who had gathered at the edge of the river to pbad safely – saving many lives could have been crushed.

An eyewitness, Nana Adu, explained that the driver of the truck had made warning the small gathering near the river.

"It was scary to see the bus plunged into the river with children aboard.Residents rushed to rescue the pbadengers, mostly children.A few minutes later we saw a dump truck heading in the same direction, the driver signaling the spectators to run away was scary, "he said.

Some residents attribute to the contractor responsible for the rehabilitation work on the road to Lake Bosomtwe-Atonsu almost fatal accidents.

Residents want the government to push the contractor to speed up the work to prevent this from happening again.

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