18 Perish in 2 separate motor accidents

It’s been a deadly weekend in the Northern Region. Two separate motor accidents have claimed the lives of 18 people.

Sixteen people died in the early hours of Sunday, April 15, 2018 in a tragic accident at Yapei-Yipala on the Tamale-Kumasi Road.

According to the police, a bus carrying 70 passengers, in an attempt to overtake a cargo truck, crashed into another bus.

At Savelugu, also in the Northern Region, another accident killed two.

Northern Region Police PRO, ASP Yusif Tanko told Joy News a tricycle carrying firewood lost control when the firewood poured onto the road.

An oncoming truck, he said, crushed the two riders of the tricycle killing them instantly.

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