Seven people have died and several others injured following a head-on collision between a VIP bus and a Sprinter bus at Atwedie, near Juaso, on the Kumasi-Accra highway.
The Sprinter bus, with registration number AS 6413-16, was traveling from Accra to Kumasi while the VIP bus, with registration number AC 1550-17, was heading to Accra from the northern part of Ghana when the crash occurred on Friday, October 11.
All five passengers aboard the Sprinter bus which was transporting tomatoes died.
One passenger on the VIP bus also died.
Several other passengers on the VIP bus sustained varying degrees of injuries and were rushed to the Juaso Government Hospital.
One of the injured passengers later died while receiving treatment.
Firefighters recovered the bodies trapped in the vehicles, and they have been deposited at the Steward Mortuary in Yawkwei.
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