ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — At the least 17 folks had been killed and dozens extra injured when a automobile carrying mining explosives blew up after colliding with a bike in western Ghana, officers mentioned Friday.
The crash occurred Thursday in Apiate, close to Bogoso, a mining city within the Prestea-Huni Valley district, the district’s municipal chief government Isaac Dsamani mentioned. The automobile was carrying explosives to the Chirano gold mine within the Western Area, he mentioned.
“We've despatched 57 casualties to close by well being facilities,” Prosper Baah, appearing regional head of the Nationwide Ambulance Service, mentioned. Many individuals had been injured as they tried to get to the scene of the accident and had been caught within the explosion, he mentioned.
The explosion induced huge harm to the village of Apiate, with a inhabitants of about 500, he mentioned. “It's a very unhappy scenario,” he mentioned.
Video from the scene circulating on social media exhibits properties decreased to items of wooden and an enormous crater within the earth the place the explosion befell.
“It's a actually unhappy, unlucky and tragic incident,“ Ghanian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo mentioned in a tweet, providing ”deep condolences to the households of the deceased, and I want the injured a speedy restoration.”
The Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Group is coordinating efforts to help residents of the city, he mentioned.