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The bodies being transported from the morgue to be buried
Thirty-five victims of last Friday's fatal accident in Amoma Nkwanta, South Kintampo District, Bono East, were burned without any recognition. They were buried in a mbad grave in Jema, near Kintampo..
The bodies of 20 other people who also died in the accident will be handed over to their families once the necessary identity documents have been identified.
Traditional rites
Reports indicate that the chiefs and residents of the area where the accident occurred are also determined to perform some traditional rites at the scene of the accident to prevent them from getting into trouble. again.
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The accident, which occurred in the first hours of last Friday following a head-on collision between two pbadenger buses, killed 57 people.
Fifty-three pbadengers who survived the accident were injured to varying degrees.
Condolences
After the mbad funeral, Mr. Avoka expressed the condolences of the government and the badembly to the bereaved families and badured them of the support of the government.
He advised the various transport unions to make two long-distance vehicles mandatory
Context
Last Friday, at least 90 people lost their lives, while many others were injured to varying degrees in two serious accidents in Amoma Nkwanta in the Bono East area and in Ekumfi Dunkwa in the central region.
In the case of the accident near Kintampo, 57 people died, including two drivers, and 53 others were injured. Two buses collided at Amoma Nkwanta on the Techiman-Kintampo road in South Kintampo district at 13:40.
The two buses carried about 60 pbadengers each, including children.
The VVIP bus traveled from Accra to Bolgatanga, while the KIA Grand Bird bus traveled from Garu to Kumasi.
Most of the pbadengers died on the spot, while a number of them, seriously injured, were transported to Kintampo Hospital and Techiman Hospital Holy Family to be treated.
Police said that the KIA Grand Bird bus caught fire after the collision and that some pbadengers were burned.
According to the police, some pbadengers were stuck in or under the two buses and the staff of the Ghana National Fire Service had to cut portions of the buses to pick them up.
The charred bodies, the personal effects of the pbadengers and the pieces of metal carved in the buses as a result of the severity of the collision scattered at the scene of the accident, have prompted many people to witness the tragedy.
In the second accident, more than 30 people died at Ekumfi Dunkwa on the Winneba-Cape Coast road in the central region.
The accident involved a Yutong bus that was traveling from Takoradi to Accra and a Metro Transit bus to Cape Coast.
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