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ACCRA, GHANA --
A automobile carrying explosives utilized in mining collided with a bike and blew up in western Ghana on Thursday, inflicting an unknown variety of fatalities and injuring scores of individuals, police stated.
Video from the scene circulating on social media confirmed properties decreased to items of wooden, with an enormous crater within the earth close by.
The exact location of the accident was unclear. The automobile was carrying mining explosives from the Tarkwa to the Chirano gold mines within the Western Area.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo stated the explosion had resulted "within the lack of lives," with out giving additional particulars. Police have been on the scene together with hearth and ambulance companies, he added.
"It's a really unhappy, unlucky and tragic incident, and I lengthen, on behalf of Authorities, deep condolences to the households of the deceased, and I want the injured a speedy restoration," Akufo-Addo tweeted.
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