A Family of six (6) have been confirmed dead in a vehicle accident on the Kumasi Nkawie Sefwi highways on the evening of Saturday, January 8, 2022.<\/p>\n The victims include a couple, their mother-in-law and three children who were returning from a wedding when they met their untimely deaths.<\/p>\n The driver of the vehicle, according to reports, attempted an overtaking and saw another vehicle approaching him with equal speed.<\/p>\n In an attempt to swerve, they landed in a nearby river and got drowned in the process.<\/p>\n Ashanti Regional Police MTTD commander Chief Superintendent, Adu-Boahen has confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n He told EIB\u2019s News Ashanti Regional correspondent Isaac Justice Bediako that \u201c Yes the report on the accident has come to my attention. Those six people have died in the Nkawie area. An investigation has commenced. I\u2019m yet to receive facts on the accident from my officers on the ground,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n One of the victims, Eunice Maame Fosua, was a Community Health nurse with Forifori Health Center in Afram Plains South District in the Eastern region but currently on study leave studying post-basic midwifery.<\/p>\n According to a close friend, \u201cthey attended the wedding of Eunice\u2019s sister-in-law (that is her husband\u2019s sister). They were six (6) in the car and all of them couldn\u2019t make it. Eunice, the husband, Eunice\u2019s mother, their child and two other children. They were returning from the wedding and they met their untimely deaths. The husband attempted an overtaking and saw another car coming. In an attempt to swerve, they landed in a nearby river and got drowned\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bodies of the victims after they were retrieved from the river A Family of six (6) have been confirmed dead in a vehicle accident on the Kumasi Nkawie Sefwi highways on the evening of Saturday, January 8, 2022. The victims include a couple, their mother-in-law and three children who were returning from a wedding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/19054966.295.jpg\" "\\"The")
The bodies of the victims after they were retrieved from the river<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n