THREE people were believed to have lost their lives yesterday in Tamale when the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off a bridge and fell into a river.
According to people who rushed to the scene when the incident happened, the vehicle was coming from Yendi heading to Tamale when their pick up slipped off the road, crushed into the bridge and fell into the river at Pagazaa, a community about 18km to Tamale town.
When the police were called to the scene, they, together with some of the community folk, managed to remove the pick-up from the river and found the lifeless body of the driver strapped to his seat by the seatbelt.
At press time, yesterday, the bodies of the two other passengers, believed to have drowned, were yet to be retrieved, whiles the body of the deceased was deposited at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH).
The Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, who spoke to the Daily Graphic from the scene of the accident, said the accident occurred around 11am.
He said an intensive search was still underway to find the remaining bodies, but noted that there was barely any hope that the two other passengers could still alive.
Chief Insp. Tetteh mentioned that the three persons had been identified as personnel of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) and identified the pick-up they were travelling in as a Toyota Hilux with registration number GX S799/10.
He gave the name of the driver as John Armah, whiles the other two missing people were identified only as Bright and Mark, believed to be in their late twenties.
The police PRO mentioned that information available to the police indicated that the three persons were in the Northern Region to do an assessment with regards to the implementation of the Ghana Prison’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) connectivity initiative.
“As part of the assessment, they went to the Yendi prison and were returning to Tamale to proceed to Kete Krachi,” he said.
He also mentioned that the three GIFFEC personnel were being accompanied by an Assistant Director of Prisons, Mr Godwin Hunyedi, who is in charge of Technical Services at the Prison’s Headquarters in Accra.
He said luckily for the prison officer, at the time of the accident, he was being driven in a service vehicle which was in the lead.
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