{"id":6799,"date":"2013-01-21T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/update-accident-on-tamale-buipe-road-24-confirmed-dead-10-injured\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:22:41","slug":"update-accident-on-tamale-buipe-road-24-confirmed-dead-10-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/21\/update-accident-on-tamale-buipe-road-24-confirmed-dead-10-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Accident On Tamale-Buipe Road&#8230;24 Confirmed Dead; 10 Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/f3ec873631293_202327.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c14\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Twenty four persons have been confirmed dead and several injured in an accident that occured on the Tamale-Buipe road in the Northern Region around 3am Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vehicle with registration number AS 8931-12 traveling from Kumasi to Tamale and the driver of a KIA truck with registration number AS 8833-11 traveling from Tamale to the Buipe market collided head-on at a place called Damongo Line.<\/p>\n<p>Peace Fm&#8217;s Northern Regional correspondent Kwabena Ntow who confirmed the accident to Tweneboah Kodua(TK) on the &#8220;kokrokoo&#8221; programme, said there was head-on collision between the KIA truck, which was carrying cattles and goats,and the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vehicle which was carrying passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Narrating the accident to Peace Fm, Kwabena Ntow said of the 24 persons confirmed dead; 15 are men,7 women, and it includes 2 children aged 1 and 7 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to him ten(10) are currently on admission at the Tamale Teaching Hospital of which two(2) are under critical condition including a soldier man in the air force who is scheduled to embark on a peace keeping mission in Liberia at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>He added that ten(10) cows and five(5) goats were also killed in the accident.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty four persons have been confirmed dead and several injured in an accident that occured on the Tamale-Buipe road in the Northern Region around 3am Monday morning.The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vehicle with registration number AS 8931-12 traveling from Kumasi to Tamale and the driver of a KIA truck with registration number AS 8833-11 traveling from Tamale to the Buipe market collided head-on at a place called Damongo Line.Peace Fm&#8217;s Northern Regional correspondent Kwabena Ntow who confirmed the accident to Tweneboah Kodua(TK) on the &#8220;kokrokoo&#8221; programme, said there was head-on collision between the KIA truck, which was carrying cattles and goats,and the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vehicle which was carrying passengers.Narrating the accident to Peace Fm, Kwabena Ntow said of the 24 persons confirmed dead; 15 are men,7 women, and it includes 2 children aged 1 and 7 years.According to him ten(10) are currently on admission at the Tamale Teaching Hospital of which two(2) are under critical condition including a soldier man in the air force who is scheduled to embark on a peace keeping mission in Liberia at the end of the month.He added that ten(10) cows and five(5) goats were also killed in the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}