A 26-year-old woman at Ahiatsikope, near Dzodze in the Volta Region, Joyce Fianu, and her nine-year-old niece were burnt to death when fire gutted their house last Saturday. The girl was identified as Christie Fianu. Meanwhile, an elder sister of the deceased, Mavis Odor, who sustained serious burns, was rushed …
Read More »Thailand nightclub fire kills at least 13 and injures dozens
At least 13 people were killed and 41 others injured after a fire swept through at a nightclub in Chonburi province in south-eastern Thailand. The fire broke out at 1:00 local time on Friday (18:00 GMT Thursday) at the Mountain B nightspot in Sattahip district, said police. Footage circulating online …
Read More »Lightning strikes dead 13-year-old boy, injures 5 other children in Buliisa
A thunderbolt has claimed the life of a 13-year-old boy and critically injured five others in Buliisa. The deceased has been identified as Howard Okello, a son of Peter Okecha, the LC III chairperson of Biiso town council. The incident happened at around 5:30 pm on Saturday evening. The children …
Read More »Zebilla: Military truck kills one, injures many
One person has been killed with others injured after a military truck rammed into shops and containers in Zebilla, near the Custom Barrier in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region. Eyewitnesses told modern Ghana reporter that the truck was on top of a speed from Bolga direction …
Read More »Explosion rocks Kaduna community, injures three
There was serious confusion among residents of Danmani community, in Rigasa, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna on Friday night, following an explosion. According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred close to a POS operator shop, close to Abubakar Sadiq Mosque. The eyewitness explained that an object suspected to be …
Read More »Juaso: Trailer-bus crash kills 4 on the spot, injures several others
At least, four people travelling on a Sprinter bus died from a crash with a trailer at Juaso in the Ashanti Region on Saturday, 19 February 2022. The trailer was transporting several crates of drink when the head-on collision happened about a kilometre after Juaso Junction in the Kumasi-Accra direction. …
Read More »Broken glass injures jobseekers during YEA job fair stampede
Some young jobseekers who thronged the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on Friday, 10 September 2021, got injured during a stampede as several of them attempted gaining access into the inner perimetre at a go. The two-day job fair started on Thursday. Several companies, private and public, have mounted stands …
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