Three die in accident on Accra-Aflao trunk road

Agbozume (V/R), June 30, GNA- Two members of the Aflao branch of the Apostolic Revelation Society (ARS) died on the spot on Sunday when their motorbike crashed head-on with an Accra-Aflao bound Hyundai passenger bus at Nogokpo near Agbozume.

The two are Horvey Ayittey, 34, a newsvendor and Joseph Abotsi, 51, a businessman.

Two-year old Miss Irene Twum, who was injured in the accident died later at the Saint Anthony's Hospital at Dzodze. Mr Isaac Adatsi, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Agbozume, told the Ghana News Agency that the late Ayittey and Abotsi were on their way to visit a member of the Society, arrested by the Police after his salon car had earlier knocked down and killed a 75-year-old woman, Madam Kekenu Agbenuke, at Segbe near Denu on the Aflao-Ho trunk road. Mr Adatsi, said at a spot on the road between Agbozume and Nogokpo, the motor cycle being ridden by Ayittey and the Hyundai passenger bus crashed into each other while attempting to avoid a pot hole. He said the Hyundai bus veered into the bush and crushed against a tree injuring almost all its passengers.

Mr Adatsi said the bodies of Ayittey, Abotsi, Madam Agbenuke and Miss Twum were deposited at the Saint Anthony's Hospital at Dzodze awaiting autopsy.