Student loses limb in freak accident

Master Prince Badu, an 18-year-old student of Bechem Presbyterian Secondary School (BESS) had his right leg cut off in an accident, on Tuesday, while on his way to school. He is on admission at the Bechem Government Hospital and is responding to treatment.

An eye-witness told Ghana News Agency that an articulated truck with registration number GR 4075 P, loaded with "wawa" boards and heading towards Sunyani pulled down some telephone wires and the student, who happened to be near the area got entangled by the wires while the vehicle was in motion.

The vehicle dragged him to a distance until his right leg was cut off at the hip by the wires. Mr Issifu Habibi, a 28, driver of the vehicle, who is in police custody, admitted that his vehicle pulled down the wires but said he did not know that the student had got entangled in them.