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General News of Friday, 21 September 2007

Source: GNA

Five die in motor accident on Kumasi/Accra road

Kumasi, Sept 21, GNA - Five persons including a three-year -old boy died n Thursday night when a bus on which there were travelling from Kumasi to Anwomaso near Ejisu was ran over by an articulated truck loaded with sheanuts.

The accident occurred in front of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Police Station.

Assistant Superintendent of Police Gabriel Ndabagamsi, District Commander of the Zongo Police Station, told the Ghana News Agency the driver of the articulated truck lost control of the vehicle when he was negotiating a curve and ran over the bus.

He said police have arrested one Toufiq Ali, 30, the driver, to help in investigations.