Information reaching DGN Online indicates that a family of six have been confirmed dead in a vehicle accident on the Kumasi-Nkawie Sefwi highways on the evening of Saturday, January 8, 2022.
According to reports, the victims include a couple, their Mother In-law and three children who were returning from a wedding when they met their untimely death.
The reports said the driver of the vehicle, attempted an overtaking and saw another vehicle approaching him with equal speed.
In an attempt to swerve, they landed in a nearby river and got drowned in the process.
The Ashanti Regional Police MTTD commander Chief Superintendent, Adu-Boahen who confirmed the incident said “Yes the report on the accident has come to my attention. Those six people have died in the Nkawie area”.
“The investigation has commenced. I’m yet to receive facts on the accident from my officers on the ground’’.
One of the victims, Eunice Maame Fosua, was a Community Health nurse with Forifori Health Center in Afram Plains South District in the Eastern Region but currently on study leave studying post-basic midwifery.
A close friend whose name is withheld also said, “they attended the wedding of Eunice’s sister-in-law (that is her husband’s sister ). They were six in the car and all of them couldn’t make it. Eunice, the husband, Eunice’s mother, their child, and two other children”.
According to her “They were returning from the wedding and they met their untimely death. The husband attempted an overtaking and saw another car coming”.
In an attempt to swerve, they landed in a nearby river and got drowned”.
The Police have since commenced investigation into the matter as the body of the deceased has been deposited at a certain morgue pending autopsy.
BY Daniel Bampoe