Family escapes death narrowly

Aflao (V/R), April 27, GNA - The occupants of a six-room roadside residential apartment at Aflao escaped death narrowly on Tuesday night, when an articulator truck travelling from Accra veered off and crushed into the building, causing extensive damage to it and personal effects.

Three people, made up of the landlord, his wife and a lady pedestrian, who was hit by the rear of the truck, were treated and discharged at the Ketu District Hospital at Aflao of minor injuries. Mr Joseph Nyavi, the landlord told the Ghana News Agency that he stood up to respond to a telephone call at about 2245 hours, while watching television with the wife in the sitting room, shortly before he heard of the crush and pulled the wife to safety.

He showed the GNA a chair trapped by the truck as the one he occupied before the phone ranged.

Five children, who were said to have vacated their room about half an hour before to pass the night on the compound in view of the heat inside also had their room shuttered.

Other items damaged include television sets and other electronic appliances, sewing machine and furniture, worth millions of cedis. Both the driver and the mate of the vehicle, which have half of its body buried in the building with the windscreen and driving mirrors destroyed could not be found.

Police Inspector Edward Oberko In-Charge of MTTU at Aflao told the the back of a taxi-cab with registration number GR7253 before finally crushing into the building.