Sixty killed, 2,500 displaced in Bawku conflict

Sixty people have been confirmed dead and 2,500 displaced in the ethnic conflict between the Mamprusis and Kusasis last week.

Briefing the GNA at Bawku on Monday, the Bawku East District Chairman of the Ghana Red Cross Society, Mr Peter Aduala, said 190 houses in and around Bawku were burned down.

He said a family has also reported that six of its members were missing.

Mr Aduala said about 30 funerals for those who died in the conflict were performed at Bawku on Monday.

He said the immediate needs of the displaced persons were shelter and food and appealed to relief agencies to assist.Meanwhile, first and second cycle schools which were closed down in the wake of the conflict had still not reopened despite the directive of the Upper

East Regional Security Committee that all workers should return to work.

Some students of the Bawku Secondary and Bawku Secondary- Technical schools who went to school on Monday morning had to return home because their tutors failed to turn up.