{"id":18494,"date":"2022-03-22T17:36:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=18494"},"modified":"2022-03-22T17:36:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:36:49","slug":"passengers-burnt-to-death-in-accident-at-shama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/03\/22\/passengers-burnt-to-death-in-accident-at-shama\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers burnt to death in accident at Shama"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 15 persons onboard an Accra-bound Ford vehicle from Tarkwa are believed to have died in a car crash at Asem Asa in the Shama District, near the boundary between Western and Central Regions.<\/p>\n

A number of bodies at the scene of the accident were left charred after the crashed bus caught fire.<\/p>\n

According to an eyewitness, the accident occurred after a truck lost control and burst its tyre in an attempted overtaking, and crashed into the Ford, which was paving way for an oncoming truck.<\/p>\n

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The eyewitness, who only gave his name as Kweku, said the two vehicles finally caught fire, resulting in the burning of the passengers of the Ford carrying mainly Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody in the ford was able to get out. They were all burnt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The eyewitness also complained that it was difficult to get the police to the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had called the police, but they didn\u2019t come, so all the people in the bus, none, were saved. They all died.\u201d<\/p>\n

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About 15 persons onboard an Accra-bound Ford vehicle from Tarkwa are believed to have died in a car crash at Asem Asa in the Shama District, near the boundary between Western and Central Regions. A number of bodies at the scene of the accident were left charred after the crashed bus caught fire. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[5144,4553,10446,5719,13175,12636,7421,11511,8193,9109,7234,5241,6159,6397,10634,421,5197,1996,2485,594],"class_list":["post-18494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accident","tag-accra","tag-burning","tag-bus","tag-car","tag-car-crash","tag-chinese","tag-citinews","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-death","tag-died","tag-fire","tag-ford","tag-lost","tag-police","tag-shama","tag-tarkwa","tag-truck","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}