By Francis Kokutse | Related Press
ACCRA, Ghana — At the very least 17 individuals have been killed and dozens extra injured when a car carrying mining explosives blew up after colliding with a bike in western Ghana, officers mentioned Friday.
The crash occurred Thursday in Apiate, close to Bogoso, a mining city within the Prestea-Huni Valley district, the district’s municipal chief govt Isaac Dsamani mentioned. The car was carrying explosives to the Chirano gold mine within the Western Area, he mentioned.
“Now we have despatched 57 casualties to close by well being facilities,” Prosper Baah, appearing regional head of the Nationwide Ambulance Service, mentioned. Many individuals have been injured as they tried to get to the scene of the accident and have been caught within the explosion, he mentioned.
The explosion triggered huge injury to the village of Apiate, with a inhabitants of about 500, he mentioned. “It's a very unhappy state of affairs,” he mentioned.
Video from the scene circulating on social media exhibits properties diminished to items of wooden and a large crater within the earth the place the explosion befell.
“It's a actually unhappy, unlucky and tragic incident,” Ghanian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo mentioned in a tweet, providing “deep condolences to the households of the deceased, and I want the injured a speedy restoration.”
The Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Group is coordinating efforts to help residents of the city, he mentioned.