One child who was receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Police Hospital after the Dzorwulu Highway accident has sadly died.
The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Assistant Divisional Officer I (ADO I) Alex King Nartey, confirmed the news in a Facebook post.
He expressed his condolences to the child’s family and prayed that the young soul would rest in peace.
A Mercedes-Benz Sprinter school bus carrying about 11 lower primary school pupils was involved in a serious road accident with a loaded tipper truck on the Dzorwulu–Accra Mall road in Accra on Thursday, 30 July.
The child who died was among the victims who were seriously injured in the crash.
The accident happened after a tipper truck reportedly crashed into the back of the school bus, which has the registration number GT 5717-14.
According to preliminary investigations, the children, aged between three and 10 years, were travelling from Ashaiman to Accra in the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter bus when the accident happened.
