Accra - At least 60 people died in a head-on collision between
two passenger buses on a highway in Ghana on Friday, emergency
workers said.
"It took the fire service about 30 minutes to put out the fire,"
Kintampo Municipal Fire Commander Ankomah Twene said, adding that
some of the bodies were bent beyond recognition by the crash.
Several survivors from the crash, which took place in Ampoma town in
Ghana's Bono East Region, were transported to nearby hospitals. The
cause of the crash was not yet known.
Serious road accidents occur again and again in Ghana, as well as
other African countries, often due to high speeds, technical problems
with vehicles and poor road conditions.