Six die in an accident

Six persons died on Sunday at Asaam, a farming community near Asante-Mampong when a vehicle on which they were travelling was involved in an accident.

The deceased identified as Agyenin Boateng, 24, Kwabena Ofori, 35, Kwabena Dwomoh, Kwaku Amoah, Kwabena Latif and B.S.K. Kumordzi alias "Kofi Kofi."

The bodies have been deposited at the Mampong Government Hospital. Fifteen others who sustained injuries are responding to treatment.

The remaining passengers numbering over 10 who sustained minor injuries were treated and discharged.

The Mampong police said the vehicle with registration number AS 6731 D, which was travelling from Kofiase to Asaam somersaulted three times and landed by the roadside at the outskirts of Asaam.

The passengers mostly footballers of Kofiase Football Club were bound to honour a match at Asaam. The driver of the vehicle, Kwaku Oduro, 32, is reported to be at large.

One Osei Kwabena, 30, who took advantage of the accident and attempted to steal from the late Kumordzi, the team manager of Kofiase football club was lynched by an angry mob at Kofiase.

In a related development, two women in their late twenties, Portia Ampadu, a teacher at Ejura Local Authority JSS and Regina Gyimah, a trader, also died at Kyerefamso near Asante-Mampong on Saturday in an accident.