Four persons were killed and 19 others injured in two separate accidents involving a cargo truck and a Metro Mass Transit (MMT) bus within the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region.
In the latest accident which occurred on January 31, on the Wa-Loggu road involving a Cargo Truck with Registration number GT
3468 G, two women died on the spot while 18 others sustained various injuries.
According to Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Joseph Oppong, the Regional MTTU Commander, the bodies of the deceased, Halitu Memuna 60 and Seidu Fatuma 79 had since been
released to their families for burial after a post-mortem examination was conducted.
Those who sustained injuries have been treated and discharged from the Wa Government Hospital.
ASP Oppong told the Ghana News Agency that the truck was loaded with charcoal with market traders on board when the accident occurred close to the Wa Senior High School.
The MTTU Commander said the driver, Salam Salifu, 28, explained that he was trying to dodge some mango trees that had their branches covering part of the road to protect those sitting on
top but in the process, his steer got locked up and he veered off the road resulting in the accident.
He said the vehicle examiner was yet to confirm the truth or otherwise of the explanation given by the driver.
ASP Oppong said on January 22, an MMT bus with Registration Number GR 1503 U also knocked down three boys who were riding on a push cart moving in the same direction with the bus which was trying to overtake them.
He said the boys were then knocked down by the bus when their push cart rather veered and crossed the path of the bus.
Mumuni Mujeeb 15, died instantly while Abdul-Karim Hanan 11,and Abubakar Saani sustained injuries and were rushed to the Wa Government Hospital where Hanan later died on the same day.
Abubakar Saani is still on admission at the hospital responding to treatment.
ASP Oppong lamented the carelessness on the roads and regretted that people turned to blame the Police even when accidents occurred as a result of irresponsible road users.
He said both drivers were in Police custody assisting in investigations.
border island of Yeonpyeong last November.
Tensions persist on the Korean Peninsula after the North's artillery strike on the island killed two marines and two civilians. The bombardment came after a multinational investigation concluded that North Korea torpedoed a South Korean warship, killing 46 sailors, last March.
The South's defense ministry has said it is willing to hold higher- level talks, but only if North Korea apologizes and takes responsibility for the two attacks.
North Korea has so far denied any involvement in the warship sinking and insists that its artillery attack on Yeonpyeong was legitimate because the South first provoked the North by holding a live-fire drill near the island with some shells falling on the North's side.