SEVEN persons died on the spot when a bus on which they were travelling somersaulted and crashed into a tree at Asitey Hill along the Orterkpolu-Krobo Odumase road on Wednesday.
The deceased included the driver of the Mitsubishi mini-bus and a four-year-old girl.
Six other passengers sustained serious injuries, while a six-month-old baby girl escaped unhurt.
The vehicle, with registration number GW 1104 S, was conveying a family from Aketengbo, a village near Asesewa, to Krobo-Odumase for a funeral when the crash occurred at about 9.20 p.m.
Others who survived the accident have been identified as John Amanor, 53; Joseph Kofi, 16; Yohannes Tetteh, 37; Mamle Kenney, 36; Rosina Tetteh, 16 and Leticia Tetteh, a six-year-old, while those who died are yet to be identified.
The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the Atua Government Hospital morgue, while the injured are responding to treatment at the hospital.
The survivors, who were trapped together with the deceased in the terribly mangled bus were rescued by some of the residents of the area.
A few minutes after the accident, police personnel from Krobo-Odumase arrived at the scene to support the residents who were engaged in the rescue operation and later called in personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service, who succeeded in bringing out the rest of the deceased.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, the acting Akropong Divisional Police Commander, ASP Jack Levy, advised drivers to be extremely cautious when descending the hill, which he described as an accident-prone area.
Some of the residents who spoke to the Daily Graphic pleaded with the government to put in place the necessary measures to make the dangerous, hilly road accident-free.
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