A truck carrying explosives intended for mining collided with a motorcycle, setting off a blast that left a massive crater, and more than a dozen people dead.
Debris of houses and other buildings destroyed when a vehicle carrying mining explosives detonated after a collision along a road in Apiate, Ghana, January 21, 2022. — At least 13 people were killed and 45 were being treated in hospital on Friday after a devastating explosion ripped through a town in western Ghana the previous day. It was a tragic road accident, with devastating consequences.
Hundreds of homes were affected, many of them flattened. Rescue workers were still wading through rubble on Friday in the hope of finding buried survivors, but more often than not, they were retrieving lifeless bodies.
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