Archive | February 19, 2016
MAGNITUDE 3.4 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, USA
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=489334
Subject To Change
Depth: 4 km
Distances: 286 km NW of Los Angeles, United States / pop: 3,792,621 / local time: 20:12:06.0 2016-02-18
31 km N of San Luis Obispo, United States / pop: 45,119 / local time: 20:12:06.0 2016-02-18
8 km W of Templeton, United States / pop: 7,674 / local time: 20:12:06.0 2016-02-18
Horrific vehicle crash kills at least 71 people in Ghana, Africa
At least 71 people have been killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Ghana.
The crash, which reduced the bus to a mangled wreckage, is one of the deadliest road accidents recorded in the West African country.
Police said the government-operated bus was in the town of Kintampo on Wednesday evening when it collided with a truck carrying tomatoes.
The cause of the crash has not yet been confirmed, but police sources said both vehicles were suspected of speeding.
Authorities said rescuers were forced to saw through the wreckage in an attempt to retrieve the bodies.
“It was very serious. Many of them were already dead,” regional police spokesman Christopher Tawiah told news agency AFP.
“We had to use chainsaws to cut through parts of the mangled bus to get bodies and survivors out,” he said.
“The rest are still receiving treatment,” he said.
Bismark Owusu Fosu, medical director at Kintampo hospital, later confirmed that 71 people had died and 13 were seriously injured.
The bus was heading to the northern town of Tamale from the second-largest city Kumasi when the accident happened.
Ghana’s President John Mahama has tweeted his condolences to relatives of the victims.
“Received the sad news of an accident involving a M.M.T. Bus on the Kintampo-Tamale road. Condolences to those who’ve lost loved ones,” he wrote.
Courtesy of Sky News
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