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Regional News from Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Source: adomonline.com
2019-02-20
Three of the victims died on arrival at the Kibi Public Hospital
Thirteen workers at Jerfix International Company were electrocuted while they were mounting billboards in Asikam, near Kyebi.
Three of them, Kwadwo Wadasi, 25 years old; Joshua Oboye, 20, and Agyei Taller, 40, died on arrival at the Kibi Public Hospital.
The bodies of the deceased were deposited at the hospital morgue for autopsy and preservation.
Philip Larbi, 34, George Asante, 30, Ebenezer Addo, 30, Haruna Abdul Rahaman, 23, and Isaac Owusu, 15, were injured and are treated at the Kyebi government hospital.
Ebenezer Tetteh, East Region Police Public Relations Officer, Ebenezer Tetteh, told the Ghana News Agency that workers were putting up a billboard of a vocational training school to build when they were not working. she accidentally fell on a high-voltage cable workers.
The other five workers, Emmanuel Danso, 32 years old; Charles K. Nyako, 45 years old; Stephen Namor, 33 years old; Nana Yaw Ofori, 22, and Richard Karikari, 22, were treated and discharged.
Tetteh DSP said the police went to the scene and took pictures of the victims to facilitate investigations.
He pointed out that Jerfix International Company's director, Mr. Jerry Jiriku, and the team's supervisor, Mr. Sampson Sefa Boateng, had been invited to participate in the investigation.
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