About thirty people including women and children died on the spot at Zagyuri on the Tamale-Bolgatanga Highway when a Leyland passenger truck with registration number NR 1259 W fell in a gutter.
This set residents of Tamale agog as they flooded the Tamale Teaching Mortuary to identify the deceased. Eyewitnesses accounted that the accident occurred as a result of wrong overtaking by the driver though unconfirmed by the police.
While all the 30 deceased have been deposited at the Tamale Teaching Hospital Morgue, the surviving victims numbering about 80 whose bodies have been badly damaged are lying at the hospital.
The death toll could rise because there were no Doctors at the hospital when Sofo Azorka, NDC First Vice Chairman for the Northern Region brought the first batch of the deceased to the hospital after which he mobilized more vehicles to convey the rest.
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