Falling block kills woman at Asamankese

A woman had died instantly at the Asamankese Market in the Eastern Region after a falling block from a storey building crashed her.

The body of the deceased whose name is yet to be identified has been deposited at Asamankese Government Hospital Morgue.

Starr News has gathered that the blocks were pulled down from the top of the uncompleted structure at the market by electricity Cables some workers of Electricity Company of Ghana were working on.

The deceased woman who was entering the local market through the first gate to buy food items was accidentally hit in the head by one of the falling blocks killing her instantly.

The West Akyem District Operations Director of the National Disaster Management Organization, NADMO, Micheal Kwabi told Starr News that, ”we had information that, a certain woman was going to the market to buy some fish, standing at the first entrance and at the top there, the building is upstairs and there were some weak blocks there and it fell on the head and she died instantly “

Meanwhile, the family of the deceased on Thursday visited the Police station to identify the body at the morgue.

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