Information reached uniquenewsgh.com revealed, four school children have bee reported dead and many of them injured in an accident involving a school bus on the Terchire-Adrobaa stretch in the Tano North district of the Bono Region.
The old aged Benz bus with registration number AW 6315-11 was transporting about 25 pupils of the DS Elite Academy when the car slid off the newly constructed Adrobaa road.
Eyewitnesses narrated that the driver slid off the slippery road upon getting to a sharp curve, causing the car to somersault.
“4 pupils dead, scores seriously injured in accident involving rickety school bus.
Three of the pupils died on the spot whilst another was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after. Four other pupils are in critical conditions while the remaining sustained various degrees of injury”.
The victims were transported to the St John’s Hospital at Duayaw-Nkwanta and the remaining at Adrobaa health center.
The four with life threatening injuries have been referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
A teacher, who spoke to uniquenewsgh.com, indicated that in their 15 years of operation, such sad incident has never been recorded by the school.
Other residents also explained the Adrobaa-Terchire newly constructed stretch is an accident-prone area, adding that about four fatal accidents have been recorded in the past weeks.
By uniquenewsgh.com
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