Deadly Accident On Buipe – Tamale Road Claims 20 Lives

Some 20 people are reported to have died in a car crash involving two buses on the Buipe-Tamale Highway following a deadly collision in the early hours of Wednesday February 3,2021 at Sarekyekura near Fufulso.

Sixteen persons made up of 12 male adults, three female adults, and one female child died on the spot.

According to a statement from the Police, the “Yutong buses with registration numbers GT 3345-16 and AC 1699-20 with about 45 persons onboard each of the vehicles were travelling from Kumasi to Zebila and from Garu to Kumasi respectively,” when the crash happened.

Forty-five persons according to information gathered by the Ghanareport.com who were on board the two vehicles sustained various degrees of injury and were rushed to Buipe Polyclinic and Holistic Medicare Hospital, Buipe for treatment.

One female adult later died whilst receiving treatment at Holistic Medicare Hospital bringing the death toll to seventeen.