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ACCRA, GHANA --
At the very least 17 individuals had been killed and dozens extra injured when a automobile carrying mining explosives blew up after colliding with a motorbike in western Ghana, officers stated Friday.
The crash occurred Thursday in Apiate, close to Bogoso, a mining city within the Prestea-Huni Valley district, the district's municipal chief government Isaac Dsamani stated. The automobile was carrying explosives to the Chirano gold mine within the Western Area, he stated.
"Now we have despatched 57 casualties to close by well being centres," Prosper Baah, appearing regional head of the Nationwide Ambulance Service, stated. Many individuals had been injured as they tried to get to the scene of the accident and had been caught within the explosion, he stated.
The explosion brought on huge injury to the village of Apiate, with a inhabitants of about 500, he stated. "It's a very unhappy scenario," he stated.
Video from the scene circulating on social media exhibits houses decreased to items of wooden and a large crater within the earth the place the explosion befell.
"It's a actually unhappy, unlucky and tragic incident," Ghanian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo stated in a tweet, providing "deep condolences to the households of the deceased, and I want the injured a speedy restoration."
The Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Group is coordinating efforts to help residents of the city, he stated.
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