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Regional News of Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Source: Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson

Gory Photos: Train crushes man to death at Kojokrom

The man believed to be in his 50s was crushed into pieces by a Train at Railway Terminal The man believed to be in his 50s was crushed into pieces by a Train at Railway Terminal

It was a very pathetic and heart wrenching scene at Kojokrom on Tuesday night, February 21, 2017 when a man believed to be in his 50s was killed and crushed into pieces by a Train at a spot near the newly constructed Railway Terminal

Bewildered eye witnesses tell YOURS IN THE INDEFATIGABLE SERVICE OF GHANA, NHYIRABA PAA KWESI SIMPSON the deceased was among a group of persons suspected to be alcoholics and Wee smokers who normally gather around the newly constructed Terminal at night

Luck eluded the deceased when he could not run to safety as a Manganese Train from Takoradi to Nsuta knocked him, mutilating his body with the intestines gushing out at around 10:30pm

Personnel from the Ghana Ambulance Service were quickly called to the scene but the victim had already given up the ghost before their arrival

He has been identified as Kweku, a resident of Essikado with wife and children

One of his daughters who rushed to the scene soon after the incident reportedly collapsed upon seeing her father's mutilated body

The body has since been conveyed to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital Morgue.